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1. The only firm date we have about that period of troubles is the year 878, when an army of rebels led by a Huang Chao besieged Guangzhou and subsequently massacred thousands of foreign merchants living there, on top of sacking the city
2. ‘’But,’’ cut in Henry Ferguson, ‘’if there are indeed famines now inside China, then the warehouses in Guangzhou will be empty
3. Guangzhou is a trading port geared towards the exportation of goods towards foreign lands
4. If there is rice and other foodstuff on sale in the warehouses of Guangzhou, it will have come from the collecting of taxes, which are mostly paid by peasants in grains and produces
5. The profits made on the sale of those goods to foreigners in turn go mostly to the coffers of the Emperor and of his regional military governor in Guangzhou
6. Thus, Doctor Drelan will probably find sizeable quantities of rice and other foodstuff in Guangzhou, irrespective of the present plight of the Chinese peasants
7. Abu’l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh, better known to his friends and family as simply ‘Ibn Khordadbeh’, was thoughtful for a moment before answering the question from his friend Omar al-Khindi, an old Arab merchant who had been living in Guangzhou for over twenty years and who could speak fluently the local language
8. Omar laughed with Abu’l-Qasim about that reference to the way the latter’s ship had barely survived a storm, only to limp into port in Guangzhou and sink at quayside
9. Khordadbeh’s jaw dropped wide open as he followed with his eyes the impossible flying ship as it performed a wide turn to come back over Guangzhou while losing speed and altitude
10. As for the few Chinese soldiers that had been on guard duty in the port area, they had vanished from sight, something that didn’t surprise Khordadbeh: the soldiers of the military governor of Guangzhou were much better at extracting bribes and bullying foreign merchants than at fighting
11. If things go well in Guangzhou, we would be interested in keeping your services as our local contact and go-between here in China
12. Ahmed grew up here in Guangzhou and his mother is a local Chinese woman whom I married after coming here from Basrah
13. Omar, like ibn Khordadbeh and the residents of Guangzhou, was stunned when the time came to carry away all that foodstuff, with a 300 meter-long cargo shuttle from the MARCO POLO showing up to pick up the precious cargo
14. While young Aisha looked on, her heart beating faster now, Omar hesitated for a long moment: while this proposition was most unusual, the fact was that the only plausible future prospect for his daughters up to now had been to marry one day with a local man or foreign resident of Guangzhou
15. That was because the variants I learned through mnemotronic techniques are the variants still known 3,000 years in the future, variants that markedly differ from the dialects used here in Guangzhou at this time
16. ‘’In truth, you can hear dozens of different Chinese dialects just here in Guangzhou, and I won’t even talk about the rest of the empire
17. With her brother Ahmed returned to Guangzhou in the morning, she now could view from the air the imperial capital, Chang’an, a place that was nearly mythical for the common Chinese
18. They had made another stop after leaving Guangzhou, this time at Hangzhou, which would become Shanghai in the future and was already a major commercial port
19. That stop, while relatively brief, had been nearly as fruitful as the one in Guangzhou, with large quantities of wheat, rice, tea, sugar and produces bought there
20. ‘In mid-November 2009, when the public works department was already in a flurry over the increasingly complicated security upgrades at President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, the director of one of its main contractors was rubbing shoulders with ANC top brass in Guangzhou, China
21. They died and I was left with an old aunt and uncle who had come from Guangzhou in the late thirties and who had learned the value of education
22. Guangzhou, China: 295 buildings taller than 100 m, with a combined height of 42,865 m (140,633 ft)
