The Uighur envoy's heart skipped a beat, and this time he threw himself straight down. His head hit the stone slab with a thud and hit the floor hard, causing blood to flow out on the spot.
"Hurry and save people!" Li Yuanxing was really shocked when he saw the blood coming out.
Several personal guards rushed in, and after checking, they breathed a sigh of relief: "Report to King Qin, this is just a fainting. There is a skin injury on the head."
"Call a medical officer to come over and take a look!" Li Yuan said in his heart, you messenger is going crazy, why did you hit the stone slab by yourself?
Lu Chengqing stood aside, he understood and wanted to understand.
This time, Messenger He really didn't have any more etiquette. He could only pounce on him and knock himself unconscious.
The wool on a sheep is worth a penny. For the Uighur people who treat wool as waste, and even the entire grassland, this is giving them free money. To use an analogy, it is the excrement of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Some people
Pay money to buy the same.
The Uighur envoy really had no choice but to knock himself unconscious.
At least Lu Chengqing didn't know that there was any higher etiquette than bowing to the ground.
What Lu Chengqing didn't even know was that Chang'an's feces was really about to be bought with money.
Obviously, it was impossible to continue the conversation today, so Li Yuanxing waved his hand to send the envoy back to rest.
After the Uighur envoy left, Li Yuanxing asked Lu Chengqing: "What is the current price of tea cakes?"
Lu Chengqing thought for a while and then replied: "The tea bricks sold to the Turks are all inferior tea bricks. But the price is not cheap. The Uighur people have 500,000 sheep, which is only 500,000 yuan, which is only 500 guan."
It was only five hundred guan, and Li Yuanxing was no longer interested in asking how many tea bricks there were.
Five hundred guan is considered money, but you can also consider increasing the purchase price of wool for the grassland tribes in the future. The price of modern high-quality wool has been as high as hundreds of yuan per kilogram. This untreated wool, a single
The wool from sheep costs more than 200 yuan in modern times.
There is only one penny here. According to the purchasing power of one penny in the Tang Dynasty, it is almost four to five yuan in modern times.
The price difference of fifty times means that there is a huge room for wool price increases in the future. Therefore, the two cents per catty calculated by Ye Qiu Shuang is actually an extremely low price. In modern times, eight yuan per catty has not been passed.
Treated wool.
"It seems that the palace needs some people who can write and calculate!" Li Yuanxing really didn't like settling accounts.
This little thing is too small.
Lu Chengqing agreed and exited. Some people who can write and calculate will have as many as the King of Qin needs. It is not a problem at all. Now he needs to contact the people from the Security Department of the Datang Empire to get a better understanding.
The current situation in Uighur will be used for the actual negotiation between His Highness the King of Qin and the Uighur envoy tomorrow.
As for the gift list written on the parchment.
His Highness the King of Qin was not interested in seeing it, and Lu Chengqing didn't care much either. Because he seemed to have begun to understand His Highness the King of Qin, these substantive items were not at all in His Highness the King of Qin's eyes.
His Highness the King of Qin is interested in the interests of the grassland in the next five years.
Li Yuanxing subconsciously touched the cigarette again. Man, when he was thinking, he just wanted to have a cigarette. Li Yuanxing sighed in his heart, could he quit smoking in Datang?
Perhaps, a tobacco industry should have emerged in the Tang Dynasty.
Half a million pieces of wool are worth only 500 guan. It is understandable that the sudden impact made the Uighur envoy go crazy, but after calming down. It seems that at the moment, this wool can only be used as an appetizer, so it should be added with a big meal.
right.
What should it be?
What's on the grassland?
Li Yuanxing pressed his forehead and thought, the grassland should add another trade product that is beneficial to the Tang Dynasty.
Even if it is impossible to benefit the Uighur people at the moment, we must give them something to look forward to.
What's on the grassland?
Sheep, horses, cows, and grass!
Li Yuanxing was suddenly happy. Milk, the most beneficial thing, should be milk. It is not practical to raise cattle now, and you can't get breeding cows for dairy cows yourself, but goat milk is a good thing. But goat milk has a shelf life.
How to transport it to Chang'an? Just for trade in the border areas, the quantity is too small.
Li Yuanxing asked people to bring the tea sea and brought out a pack of Tieguanyin himself.
While making tea, I was thinking that wool alone is not enough for the grassland, because the current value of wool is not enough to drive the entire grassland crazy. This is not the Europe of those years, unless the price of wool reaches the two cents a pound I said,
At least when there is only one penny per pound, they will really go crazy.
But this requires wool to truly become industrialized.
The guards outside the door saw Li Yuanxing thinking, quietly closed the door, and patrolled the surroundings. No one within two hundred steps was allowed to make any noise. Anyone who dared to disturb His Highness the King of Qin would be punished under military law. If it was someone outside the army, it would not be possible at all.
You don't have the right to get close.
During lunch, the guards brought us in.
Li Yuanxing was still sitting there in a daze. Later, Lu Chengqing came again, holding Chai Shao's battle report. He also did not enter the room. Shengzhou was just a small battle. It is not too late to report such a small matter after it is over. Besides, the Minister of the Ministry of War
Li Jing must have received the battle report, if there is anything that needs to be dealt with.
Naturally, Mr. Li Jing takes the decision!
Lu Chengqing thought wrong, and Li Jing did not pay attention to the battle report. He only heard the report from the person who said that Shengzhou had been captured. Chai Shao was setting up defenses and arranging people to transport the Turkic herdsmen to the pass.
The fact that there was no report from Qin Qiong proved that everything was fine.
Li Jing went up the city wall not to see the Turks, but to see Zhao Yande.
The sergeant opened the city gate and sent the lunch over. Several sergeants did not understand why this time it was leftovers.
"General, what do you mean?" a deputy general asked beside Li Jing.
Li Jing stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhao Yande: "Look, look at it carefully. If you understand, you also have the opportunity to become a general in charge of the army. If you don't understand, you are just a brave man who leads the troops to attack!"
Li Jing did not explain, because he was also observing and wanted to know whether what he saw was the same as what he predicted.
Zhao Yande saw the food delivery person coming. This time he did not dare to run towards the city wall. He carefully looked back at the Turks. People there seemed to be paying attention to this place.
Finally, the sergeant put down the food box.
Zhao Yande rushed forward like a hungry ghost, and stuffed it into his mouth with both hands. He no longer thought about why it was leftovers, because he was hungry, very hungry. And if he didn't eat quickly, those Turkic soldiers would
What should I do if he comes to rob me, or in other words, what should I do if Datang no longer gives him food at night?
Li Jing smiled on the city wall. King Qin Li Yuanxing was really smart.
After the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty retreated, before the city gate was closed, they saw the Turkic soldiers rushing up like crazy. They grabbed Zhao Yande and went to dig through the food box, but Zhao Yande was still stuffing it in his mouth.
In the food box, the plates and bowls were all empty, leaving only some vegetable juices at the bottom of the plate.
"Hit!" I don't know who shouted, and dozens of Turkic soldiers beat Zhao Yande fiercely.
Just when Zhao Yande was about to be beaten to death, he heard the sound of a horn in the Turkic army formation. After hearing this, the Turkic soldiers ran back quickly without caring about Zhao Yande.
Li Jing was watching with a telescope, and he could even see the running posture of the Turkic soldiers very clearly.
They are hungry and their energy is low.
"Tonight and tomorrow morning, the Turks will start killing horses!" Li Jing said calmly, and then added: "However, without firewood, without fire, and without water, what will happen to the Turks? Drink horse blood, and you will survive.
Eat horse meat!”
A deputy general said: "The place here is very small. Forty thousand troops to kill horses is definitely not a small number. They kill horses. Horses are also agile and intelligent, and other horses will be afraid. Once they kill horses, the cavalry will
Wasted!"
Li Jing did not answer this, because all the generals with some status in the Tang Dynasty knew this.
"Have you figured it out about these two meal deliveries?" Li Jing asked. Most of the mid-level generals shook their heads. Only a few were really thinking. Li Jing smiled, said nothing more, and turned around to go to the city.
Went.
At lunch time, the mutton roasted all morning is at its most fragrant, and the aroma of the mutton wafts to the Turks.
The Turks would not have much dry food, and without water, they would be the biggest enemy of the 40,000-strong army. The Turk soldiers who were digging deep wells to get water smelled the aroma of mutton and all stopped what they were doing.
The aroma of mutton stimulated the Turks and King Zuo Xian.
"Kill, kill!" Some Turkic soldiers couldn't bear it. It had only been one night and one day. They didn't know how long they would be surrounded. Some took the lead, and others followed. Their target was not the deep trenches on both sides, but Qin Qiong.
The deep trenches on the line of defense we are responsible for have not yet been dug.
The cry of killing came again. Qin Qiong, who was waiting for the battle, did not pay attention to the desperate Turkic soldiers who had no formation, no organization, and just rushed randomly. After a few charges, the sergeants of the Tang Dynasty only injured a few hundred people.
, no one died. But the Turks threw thousands of corpses.
"Surrender, we surrender!" A Turkic soldier threw away his scimitar.
Qin Qiong uttered one word coldly: "Kill!" After a shower of arrows, the Turkic soldiers who asked to surrender died one after another.
The Turks retreated again, and the sergeants of the Tang Dynasty continued to rotate their posts, resting when they needed it and eating when they needed to eat.
A deputy general asked Qin Qiong: "General, why don't you surrender?"
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin didn't say surrender, just kill!" Qin Qiong responded coldly. In Qin Qiong's heart, a sergeant who goes into battle to fight does not need to think about the commander's thoughts. He who kills with his heart is a good sergeant.
King Zuoxian of the Turks looked at the corpses there, there were thousands of corpses, and his mind fell into an ice cellar.
Li Yuanxing's contemptuous snort was still in front of him, and it would appear every moment.
King of Qin, this title is really not given casually. There is no weak King of Qin among the Han people!
The Turks had no food to eat, but the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty also had roasted fragrant mutton as a meal, and even the slave barracks were given it. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)