Chapter 33 Planning
He ordered people to open the boxes on the four cars. Zhao Yun looked at it and was shocked.
There are four boxes on each of the four cars, each box is one meter long, half a meter wide and half a meter high. It is full of gold, silver and jewelry. All sixteen boxes are like this. This money has blinded Zhao Yun's eyes.
"Why are the Yun family sending people to send so much treasure to the Xianbei of Linke?" Zhao Yun frowned and pondered.
Different from the Han people, gold, silver and treasures are also very important to them, but in the eyes of Xianbei people or all foreigners, the value of gold, silver and treasures is far less important than steel, armor, grain, and tea.
Because these four things are scarce items on the grassland, the nomads on the grassland don’t usually use gold, silver and treasures. Most of them trade in the form of barter.
Steel can forge weapons, armor can enhance defense, food can fill the belly, and tea can provide them with the necessary substances for survival.
Nomads eat more hot, greasy and difficult to digest foods such as beef and mutton, milk. Tea is rich in vitamins, tannins, theophylline and other substances. The nutrients they lack can be taken from them. Drinking hot hot tea can also eliminate parasites that enter the body with beef and mutton.
People often feel uncomfortable after eating too much big fish and meat. This is a manifestation of unbalanced nutrition intake in the body. Drinking more tea can be adjusted well at this time.
So what is different from ordinary people is that for the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty, tea is just a remedy for life, a drink, and it doesn’t matter whether it has it or not. Rich families can use it to enjoy it and treat guests, while poor families can drink water without tea.
However, for nomadic people, tea is equivalent to rice and salt, and is a necessity for daily life. Although there are food and vegetables on the grassland, the yield is extremely rare and not enough. It can be said that without tea, the lives of nomadic people will be greatly threatened, and people generally will not live too high!
Zhao Yun once learned about this history that on the grassland, especially among the nomadic peoples who are extremely in need of tea, if there is a tea brick, you can exchange them for a sheep or more!
Therefore, Zhao Yun was puzzled by the fact that the Yun family wanted to give gold, silver and treasures to the Xianbei. These things were of great value in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but they were not very important to the Xianbei.
Tian Chou said on the side, "I know that the three families and the Xianbei are secretly connected, and they use the Xianbei robbery, fish and people, and big money. However, the origin of these money is unknown. They need to make these money openly in this way without doubt. Every time they obtain money from the Xianbei robbery, they will send a batch of them. The Xianbei people use this money to buy their things. On the surface, it looks like a normal transaction, but in fact it is just a means for the three families to obtain resources."
Zhao Yun suddenly realized that after a long time of work, he was just laundering money!
After thinking about it, I realized that the regime of the Eastern Han Dynasty is still relatively stable. Although the three families have great wealth, they are just ordinary families. Although their financial resources are strong, their strength is not very good. The imperial court has a great deterrence, and the three families dare not blatantly cooperate with the Xianbei.
Otherwise, it would be very easy for the imperial army to not attack the Xianbei, and it would be very easy to specifically eliminate them.
Some things cannot be placed on the table. Although everyone knows it, they cannot be said and require some way of operation.
From this we can see that the three families secretly communicated with the Xianbei, and the senior officials in Bingzhou must be clear. Either they were afraid of the Xianbei, or the three families also gave the other party great benefits, otherwise the three families would not be so sensible.
Zhao Yun thought about it carefully. There was no news about the three families in history. The most famous wealthy businessman in the Three Kingdoms era was the Mi family. The three families were just small-scale fights.
The wealth of the Mi family is enough to support Liu Beiji, which is truly called wealth that is comparable to a country. Compared with the Mi family, the three are just small businesses. Because of this, the three need this way to expand themselves.
After figuring it out, Zhao Yun smiled coldly: "Since that's the case, I'm so disrespectful to these many treasures. Thank you for your wealth!"
With a wave of his hand, Zhao Yun pointed out the direction and asked Tian Choo to lead the way while he stood behind the team to prevent any changes.
It was snowing heavily, and Zhao Yun came out alone. It only took less than three days to come here. Ye Zhao Yushi's foot strength was so good. It took ten days to go back, which was more than three times longer.
But the harvest was rich. After careful inventory, Zhao Yun learned that these treasures were worth 50,000 gold in total!
What is the concept of 50,000 gold? This is a full 500 million yuan!
The treasures that were escorted in just one time were worth so much, it was a bit unimaginable for Zhao Yun to imagine how much wealth the three families were. Even so, the three families have not made any statements in history. How much money will the Mi family, a wealthy businessman who was famous in the Three Kingdoms, have?
That's probably an astronomical number!
The Mi family doesn’t have to think about it for the time being. Maybe there is a chance to fight for it in the future and ask them to marry Mi Zhen to himself and not to Liu Bei. That would be too wasteful. But that is too far away. The three families are in front of them. This kind of secretly understanding of Xianbei is no different from being in contact with enemies!
Zhao Yun is going to make up the money of the three families!
In the valley, Dian Wei looked at Tian Chou beside Zhao Yun and asked, "Lord, who is this little baby?"
Tian Choo was born in 169 AD. He is just eleven years old now and is still a child, so Dian Wei has this question.
Tian Chou looked at Zhao Yun and asked, "Lord, who is this black-faced man?"
Dian Wei was unhappy and glared at him, but Tian Chou was not afraid at all. He glared back at him, leaving Dian Wei with no temper.
Zhao Yun smiled and said, "I will tell you about the details in the future. Now I will talk about the important matters first."
Dian Wei nodded.
Zhao Yun asked the two to sit down and said, "Weiguo, Zitai, my trip was actually to find a settlement for bandits. Although more than 500 soldiers in this valley have been training for a while, if they don't see blood and don't fight a few times, they will never be able to become elite soldiers. Therefore, I want to take them out to wipe out bandits and eliminate harm for the people, and achieve the effect of training."
"But unfortunately, heavy snow fell from the sky and the bandits were hiding. I went out for a few days and found nothing. Zitai, do you know how many bandits are around here? Where are they?"
Tian Chou shook his head, "I was caught here from Youzhou. I don't know much about this place, so I may not be able to provide information to the lord."
Zhao Yun was silent and frowned and thoughtful.
Tian Chou said again: "The lord doesn't have to worry. Now it's snowing heavily in the sky, and even if you know the traces of bandits, you shouldn't fight. The lord might as well continue to train these soldiers and find ways to equip them with some weapons. You won't let them fight with wooden knives and wooden guns? When the spring of the next year and the ice and snow melt, it's not too late to think about this problem. The bandits can't keep hiding. They must have to come out and plunder, and it will be too late to find them again."
Although Tian Choo is young, he is talented and has been well-read in poetry and books since childhood. His thoughts are very different from those of children of the same age. He also has many experiences and is more precocious.
Zhao Yun nodded in agreement with Tian Chou's statement and continued to train. At the same time, Tian Chou also joined in, training with more than 100 children who Zhao Yun trained alone every day. He was extremely talented and quickly stood out.
Chapter completed!