Unlike us Romans, they attach great importance to their children, and they can give up everything for their children, and when a child is born, the man will immediately write down the year, month, day, and hour, and then ask a fortune teller to calculate the baby's stars, and the fortune teller's reply is also written on the paper in equal detail.When the baby grows up, if there is something important, such as business, sailing, engagement, etc., take this birth date to the fortune teller, and after he calculates it in detail, predict the success or failure of the matter.The parties attached great importance to this.Because fortune tellers are skilled, there are times when prophecy works.Everywhere in the market, you can meet a large number of fortune tellers, or warlocks.No marriage will take place without the advice of a fortune teller.In Jiankun, after the death of any dignitary and wealthy family, the following rituals must be observed, which is also their custom.All family members and friends of the deceased are required to wear burlap clothes and accompany the deceased to the cemetery.The funeral procession was accompanied by bands, blowing and beating along the way, and Taoist missionaries and the like chanted the transcendent scriptures.When they arrived at the cemetery, they threw into the fire many paper men and women, horses, camels, silk made of gold thread, and gold and silver coins.They believed that the dead could enjoy these things in the underworld, and that the dummies and tributes would be restored to their original state in the underworld, even if it was currency, silk, etc.When these things were burned, they immediately played all their instruments, and the sound was loud and noisy, and it lasted for a long time.They believed that such rituals would enable their gods to lead the spirits of the deceased whose bodies had been reduced to ashes into heaven.Unlike other cities in Jiankun, there are stone houses or attics on every street in Stone City.This is mainly due to the fact that most of the houses in Stone City are made of wood, which can easily catch fire.So, in the event of a fire, residents can move their property to these lofts for safety.The reason why they built their houses out of wood was because to the west of Stone City was a large mountain called Chastele Mountain, and there was a dense forest on the mountain, which provided the people of Stone City with abundant timber.According to the regulations of the Great Khan and the Jiankun government, ten guards were stationed on each of the important bridges in Shicheng, a city built on the banks of the Syr Darya River, which the Jiankun people called the River of the Snails, five during the day and five at night.Each guard was equipped with a wooden timer (called a wooden bang by the Jiankun people), a copper timer (gong), and a chronograph to determine the time of day and night.When the first hour of the night came, one of the guards struck on the wood and the bronze, and this was to announce to the inhabitants of the neighboring streets that the first watch had arrived; When the second watch, knock twice; Over time, the number of taps also increases.Guards are not allowed to sleep in the dark of night and must be on alert at all times.In the early morning, as soon as the sun came out, it struck again, as in the evening, and so on and so on, and the hours increased by hour.There are also guards who patrol the markets to check if anyone is still lit after the stipulated curfew hours.When discovered, they made a mark on the door of the house, and the next morning they took the owner to the magistrate's office for questioning, and if he could not give a valid reason, he was punished.If a person is found to be outside the house during martial law, the guards immediately arrest and imprison him, and then take him to the same government office for interrogation the next morning.If they found a disabled person or someone who was unable to work because of another illness, they would send him to a place called the Charity Hall.There were a few or a dozen of them in every city, and they were founded by the Great Khan and his wife.When the sick person is healed, he must be put into some kind of occupation that he is capable of so that he can support himself.In the event of a fire, the guards on the bridge would strike on the wooden vessels to raise the alarm, and the guards within a certain distance would immediately rush to extinguish the fire and move the property of the merchants and others in the area into the stone houses mentioned above.Cargo was sometimes loaded onto ships and transported to a small island that had already been built at the confluence of the Kirkchi and Syr Darya rivers.Even in this case, except for the owner of the goods and the guards who came to help, the rest of the people could not go out at night.However, despite this, there were no less than two thousand people on site.In the event of a commotion or rebellion among the population, the role of such patrols becomes even more important.But in addition to them, the Great Khan had a large number of infantry and cavalry stationed in the city and its suburbs all year round, and commanded by the most competent officers.For the night garrison, a mound was set up every mile in the city, on which a wooden frame and a plank were placed, and the guards struck them with gavels, and the sound could be heard far away.If you don't take this precaution during a fire, you risk burning down half of the city.In the event of a commotion in the city, their usefulness was obvious, and as soon as the alarm was sounded, the guards on the bridges were armed and rushed to the place of the accident.Shicheng, as well as dozens of cities such as Connecticut, Khiva, and Buzhou that I passed through, used to be the territory of the Sogdians, and after the arrival of the Jiankun people, they forcibly assimilated the Sogdians, and even the former Sogdians claimed to be Han Chinese, yes, the Jiankun people claimed to be Han people instead of Jiankun people, Han seems to be the name of a dynasty in the history of Seris, oh, by the way, the Great Khan personally told me that his ancestor was a general of the Han Dynasty, and once led an army to attack the Huns!
I am ashamed to say that the Seris were able to drive the Huns to Transylvania like dogs, while we Romans were helpless in the face of Attila, the whip of God, and since the Jiankun people claimed to be the Seris, they must have a great relationship with the real Seris, and when I returned, I would suggest that His Majesty Heraclius send officials who were familiar with military and political affairs to investigate the Broken Leaves, so as to draw on their strengths to deal with the Avars, Germans, and Slavs.The Great Khan of the Jiankun Khanate set up a province and five county-level administrative units on the territory of the former Sogdians, and he appointed his cronies to administer the land, and these officials reported annually to the envoys sent by the Great Khan the total amount of income and matters related to the judiciary and the people's livelihood and economy.At the end of their three-year term, they were all replaced, as were the officials in the rest of their khanates.The governor of the province, like us Romans, was called the governor, and the governor of the province of the river was based in Connecticut, and he opened the government in Connecticut, and ruled over about twenty or so wealthy cities and towns in the province.There is no need to be surprised by this figure, because the province of Hezhong is densely populated and very rich, with more than 100 settlements large and small, and the vast majority of their people are very industrious and wealthy.The Great Khan stationed troops according to the size and specifics of each town.Some places have a thousand troops, others have five thousand or ten thousand, depending on the number of local populations.The garrison sent by the Great Khan were all young men from other parts of Jiankun who were supposed to serve in the military.For it was the habit of the Great Khan to select from among his people every year the most suitable men to serve as soldiers, but not to let them serve in the local cities, but to send them to garrisons twenty days apart, and after three or four or five years of service, they were demobilized and returned home, and they were replaced by others.This kind of regulation also applies to all the Tenkun people, including the royal family and the nobility, and compared to their nobles, I feel that we Roman magnates are some scum, and we should really learn from others.As far as I know, one-fifth of the money paid by the cities to the treasury of the Great Khan was spent on maintaining this garrison system.When I was about to leave the Stone City, I happened to meet the Great Khan's envoy to listen to the report of the city's taxes and the number of inhabitants, so I had the opportunity to know the population of the Stone City, unlike us Romans, they counted it as a family unit, they called it a household, and there were 27,500 households in the Stone City, and according to the calculation of five people in each household, the little Stone City had more than 100,000 inhabitants, God, you must know that Constantinople and Ctesiphon had only four or five hundred thousand people.I have seen their household registers, and the method is very simple: the father or head of each family must write and post the names of the whole family, both male and female, at the door, and the number of horses as well.If someone dies or leaves their home, their name is ticked off and, in the case of a new person, added to the list.It was by this method that the high-ranking officials of the provinces and the governors of the cities of Jiankun could know the exact number of inhabitants at any time.Even their royal capital, Shattered Leaf City, had to follow this rule.The proprietors of all inns and inns were likewise required to write down the names of the guests who were staying in the hotel in a book indicating the date and time of their comings and goings, and a copy of this book was to be given daily to the officials stationed in the square market so that they might know it.Although this kingdom is a pagan country, which troubles me very much, and I have no place to worship, I have to worship God in my heart, but I still have to say that apart from the fact that they are pagans, this Khanate of Tenkun is a country that is definitely no less civilized than our great Roman Empire, and the attitude of this country and their Great Khan is extremely important if it is to gain a strategic advantage over the Sassanid Persians.When I left Khiva and boarded the ship across the Khazar Sea, I realized that I really liked this country called Jiankun, but unfortunately, I had the imperial mandate to go to Broken Leaf or Stone City to be a merchant if he stopped being an official in the future.Well, that's all I have to say, the ship is about to dock, and the land is the territory of the Armenians, and through Macmiyan's Armenia, I can go back to Asia Minor, to Constantinople, and to the great Heraclius........