The Monument of the Nine Surnamed Uighur Khans is called this name because the content of this inscription is the oath of the nine major tribes of the Uighurs to jointly fight against Tiele.
This is also the purpose of the Uighurs' founding of the country, and the content of this inscription is actually very cliché.
It was the nine Uighur surnames who were oppressed by the Tiele people, and they had no choice but to follow God's will and raise armies to resist. The nine Uighur tribes jointly elected the leader of the Uighur tribe to be a khan, and all nine tribes obeyed the khan's orders.
The value of this inscription is similar to the Mayflower Compact, which symbolizes the legal basis for the founding of the Uighur nation.
The nine Uighur surnames are Uighur, Pugu, Hun, Beyegu, Tongluo, Sijie, Qibi, Bashmi and Geluolu.
In fact, it can be seen from this list that the current Uighur royal family is just the largest tribe among the nine Uighur surnames.
Ge Luolu was originally one of the nine Uighur surnames, but now he has fallen out with the Uighurs and rebelled many times with the support of the Tang Dynasty.
Among the nine surnames, in addition to rebels like Ge Luolu, there are also some tribes who have only joined the Uighur Nine Surnames Alliance.
Among them is the Pugu family, which is the tribe where Pugu Yehu belongs.
The Pugu clan is a tribe that spans the entire Longyou and Mobei. It has branches in the Uighurs and the Tang Dynasty, and Pugu Yehu is not the most famous person in the Pugu family today.
Today, the most famous person in the Pugu family is Pugu Huaien, who served in the Tang Dynasty.
Pugu Huai'en served as the Zuo Wufeng envoy of Shuofang Army and was a famous and brave general of Guo Ziyi.
The army led by Pugu Huai'en was the Pugu clan that was attached to the Tang Dynasty, and Pugu Huai'en was also intrinsically connected with the Uighurs on the grassland.
The last time the prince of the Tang Dynasty borrowed troops from the Uighurs, it was Pugu Huai'en who contacted Pugu Yehu to cooperate with him. Only then did he persuade the previous Gel Khan to send troops to help the Tang Dynasty.
Pugu Yehu had close ties with the Pugu clan who moved inland. In his youth, he traveled to the Hetao area of the Tang Dynasty and became proficient in Chinese. He was one of the few high-ranking nobles in the Uighur court who was proficient in Chinese.
When Gel Khan was in power, Pugu Yehu had always supported Prince Yehu and was also a die-hard pro-Tang faction.
Originally, Zhang Leyan built a trading post near the Khan Monument, and Pugu Yehu had always supported it.
But when the trading post was established, Pugu Yehu felt something was wrong.
The goods of these Datang merchants are really good!
The oil lamp can burn overnight by filling it with oil once, and the glass cover is windproof, making it safe to burn indoors.
It can wash clothes and leave behind a soap scented with flowers and herbs.
High quality refined salt with almost no impurities.
The most popular items among grassland herdsmen are those colorful dyed cloths.
This kind of textile called cotton is much more comfortable to wear than linen, and it is not as stuffy as wool.
Colorful cotton cloth is not only bright in color, but also does not fade when washed, making it very popular among herdsmen.
What happened next made Pugu Yehu vigilant.
Herdsmen sold the livestock they needed to the Tang Dynasty's trade war in exchange for these colorful cloths and useful daily necessities.
If it's just ordinary trade, it's fine.
However, there seems to be an endless supply of goods from the Tang Dynasty. Some herdsmen near the Khan Monument even sold all their horses, cattle and sheep to Datang merchants in exchange for these beautiful "specialties" of the Tang Dynasty. Some Uighur herdsmen have gone bankrupt.
Pugu Yehu knew that for the nomadic people, horses, cattle and sheep were not only their livestock, but also their food.
It's okay in summer and autumn when the products are relatively abundant. You can always survive by selling these horses, cattle and sheep.
But once the cold winter arrives on the grasslands, herders will never survive without their livestock.
Upon thinking of this, Pugu Yehu immediately issued an order prohibiting herdsmen from continuing to sell livestock to Datang.
This ban naturally violated the secret agreement between Datang and the Uighurs, and Zhang Leyan, the head of the trading post, was naturally not happy.
He continued to trade with the Uighur herdsmen, which completely angered Pugu Yehu, who led his troops to seal the trading post.
After Shang Bo and others returned to the trading station, they found cow dung piled at the entrance of the trading station, and saw the Uighur soldiers patrolling around. Shang Bo understood everything at once.
He sighed, and it turned out that it was Zhang Leyan who had offended the Uighur nobles by selling too hard.
Along the way, Shangbo has seen many merchant players complaining on the forum. The Uighur nobles are more or less hostile to them, the Tang Dynasty merchants.
Zhang Leyan welcomed Shang Bo in and said with some embarrassment:
"Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, there has been some friction with Pugu Yehu in the past few days, and the relationship is a bit tense."
Shang Bo just smiled slightly and said to Zhang Leyan: "Tomorrow, prepare a gift and come with me to visit Pugu Yehu."
The Khan Monument is a forest of steles, around which a city was built.
Most of the Uighurs live from grass to grass, and strictly speaking, there are only five cities in the entire Uighurs.
Uighur Yazhang City, Kedun City and the three major stele forest cities.
Oh, there is also the sixth city, the fourth Stele Forest City built by Mou Yu Khan for his father's merits.
The city of Khan Stele Forest is rich in water and grass, and it can support the tens of thousands of Uighurs in the city without having to live in the grass.
It's just that the Uighurs are not good at building cities, and the entire Forest of Steles city is built around the Forest of Steles, which looks very strange from a distance.
In the center of the city is a forest of steles, and along the streets radiating out from the forest of steles, houses of various styles are built haphazardly.
As for Pugu Yehu's mansion, it was just a little taller than the surrounding houses. In Shang Bo's opinion, it was just a bigger tent.
At this time, Pugu Yehu received the invitation from Shang Bo and was quite hesitant.
Pugu Yehu knew that Shang Bo was a distinguished guest in the Uighur Yazhang City and had visited the Uighurs on behalf of Longyou many times. He was an envoy of the Tang Dynasty who chatted and laughed with the Khan happily!
Pugu Yehu was not a fool. It was okay for him to seal Zhang Leyan's trading post, but if he refused to see the world of the Tang Dynasty, it would be a serious insult to the Tang Dynasty.
The establishment of a trading post in the Uighurs was originally something that King Jianning and Khan Mouyu had agreed upon.
It seems that we still need to meet him.
Pugu Yehu called his men and said: "Prepare tomorrow's banquet. I want to entertain the envoys of the Tang Dynasty!"
Pugu Yehu's house became busy. When Shang Bo brought Zhang Leyan to Pugu Yehu's house, he could smell the aroma of barbecue.
What surprised Zhang Leyan even more was that Pugu Yehu was already standing at the door of the mansion to greet him personally.
"Ye Hu unexpectedly greeted the little envoy in person, so frightened!"
Shang Bo first lowered his attitude and bowed his hands to Pugu Yehu to apologize.
Pugu Yehu was in a good mood and took Shang Bo's hand and pulled him into the house.
From the beginning to the end, Pugu Yehu didn't even look at Zhang Leyan behind him.
Although Zhang Leyan was dissatisfied, for the sake of the overall interests of the trading station, he could only carry the gift and walk into Pugu Yehu's house like a follower.
Walking side by side with Pugu Yehu, Shang Bo was also secretly looking at Yehu's mansion.
Ye Hu was the top nobleman of the Uighur Khanate, and his status was equivalent to that of the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty.
King Jianning was still a military envoy with a royal title, so Pugu Yehu's status was respected, so he could ignore the Khan's order and seal up the trading post of the Tang Dynasty.
Although this Ye Hu Mansion doesn't look like much from the outside, the interior decoration is still quite luxurious.
Shang Bo saw the red silk curtains and the glass windows widely used in Shazhou City.
Various utensils from the Tang Dynasty can be seen everywhere, and even a courtyard passing by looks like the style of the Tang Dynasty.
Pugu Yehu brought Shangbo to the main hall. At this time, Yehu's mansion was already filled with nobles of all sizes and numerous Khan monuments.
When they saw Pugu Yehu coming in, they all stood up and saluted.
But when they saw Shang Bo and Zhang Leyan standing behind Pugu Ye, these nobles raised their heads and snorted arrogantly.
Shang Bo didn't take it seriously and talked to Pugu Yehu with a smile.
Zhang Leyan's face looked a little ugly. Obviously, these Uighur nobles were really shameless!
This was not what they looked like when they were looking to buy Tang Dynasty products. The way they were cut now made Zhang Leyan indignant.
These Uighurs are indeed unfed wolf cubs!
After the distinguished guests sat down, Pugu Yehu clapped his hands, more than a dozen beautiful Uighur girls filed in, waved their long sleeves and began to dance.
However, in Zhang Leyan's opinion, these Uighur dances are really lackluster.
Most of the daughters of herdsmen have rough skin. Even if there are a few who are beautiful and beautiful, they will not be such humble dancers.
At this time, the Uighur dances were basically evolved from relatively primitive religious dances, and there was no sense of beauty at all.
The Xinjiang dance in later generations was so beautiful because the Uighurs later expanded southward and divided the Longyou region of the Tang Dynasty with Tubo.
The Uighurs absorbed the culture of Gaochang and other countries in the Western Regions, and then developed the prototype of modern Xinjiang dance.
This ancient and primitive dance looks like torture. It is better to watch the beautiful dance of the young ladies in the dance area.
Zhang Leyan lowered his head to eat the meat. The fragrant mutton was sprinkled with salt and cumin, and it was crispy and fragrant when he took a bite.
The mutton killed first was so well prepared that Zhang Leyan couldn't help but take a few more bites.
That's the good thing about eating in the game, you won't gain weight after eating it.
Moreover, the simulated taste of Datang Fengyun is really consistent with the real world.
As expected of Pugu Yehu, he is so wealthy that he actually uses cumin in barbecue.
Today's spices are luxury goods, and ordinary nobles put spices in sachets and use them as perfume.
Pugu Yehu actually used spices to roast the lamb. Zhang Leyan raised his head and looked around, and several young nobles also had their mouths full of oil.
Zhang Leyan sneered. It seemed that it was rare for these Uighurs to eat so many spices, and Pugu Yehu also made his face swollen and fat.
Shang Bo took a bite of the mutton, then picked up his wine glass and started chatting with Pugu Yehu.
"Your envoy has come all the way here to deal with the trading station?"
Shang Bo smiled slightly and got straight to the point. It seemed that Pugu Yehu's position was not as firm as he showed.
Shang Bo said directly: "The envoy is here to fulfill the agreement between Tang Dynasty and Hui Dynasty. This mutual trade is originally an agreement between His Royal Highness King Jianning and Mou Yu Khan, and the establishment of a trading post is also agreed by the Khan."
Pugu Yehu wiped the mutton oil on his mouth and said:
"But you Tang people seduced the herdsmen and replaced their winter livestock with useless colored cloths. They will starve to death in winter."
Pugu Yehu said that he was compassionate, but Shang Bo didn't believe it.
He has seen too many Uighur nobles and naturally knows their faces.
If the chiefs of the small ethnic groups on the grassland who share the same clan and surname still care about the herdsmen, how can a noble like Pugu Yehu care about the life and death of these herdsmen?
The cattle and sheep of Datang were exchanged for normal trade, and they were not snatched from the hands of herdsmen.
Shang Bo nodded and said: "The people are ignorant and don't know the principles of moderation. I suggest that the Tang Trading Station will only trade with the Uighur nobles in the future. What do you think of this plan?"
Pugu Yehu's mind was spinning rapidly.
To be able to achieve this position, he is certainly not a fool.
The herdsmen spent all their money to buy Tang people's products, which reduced the number of tribal livestock in Khanbei and caused the exodus of horses.
Pugu Yehu ordered the trading post to be blocked. Naturally, there were reasons for this.
But the more important reason is that the Uighur nobles could not make money in this kind of trade with the Tang Dynasty.
When the Tang Dynasty was still conducting tea and horse trading on the border, those who could go to the border to do business were the nobles or their servants.
They buy high-quality and low-price Tang specialties from the border, then transport them to the grasslands and sell them at high prices.
And these premiums will go into the pockets of the Uighur nobles.
However, the Tang Dynasty set up trading stations in the grasslands and sold cheap goods directly to herders.
The Uighur nobles would not be able to earn this price difference. While watching the merchants of the Tang Dynasty making a lot of money, they encouraged Puguye to protect the Tang trading station.
Shangbo made such a big concession when it came up. If the goods were only sold to the Uighur nobles, those mud-legged people who wanted to buy them would have to buy them from the Uighur nobles.
In this way, you can earn the price difference again and save the trouble and risk of going to the border to purchase goods.
Is there such a good thing in this world?
Pugu Yehu took a deep look at Shang Bo. No wonder this man was so good at dancing in Yazhang City and hit the nail on the head as soon as he opened his mouth.
Shang Bo continued: "If Ye Hu feels it is not appropriate, then please ask Ye Hu to designate a certain number of exclusive distributors. In the future trade war in Datang, we will only sell goods to the merchants designated by Ye Hu!"
Now Pugu Yehu raised his head and glanced at Shang Bo appreciatively.
This business blog is really interesting!
Designating an exclusive distributor is equivalent to completely handing over the power to purchase Datang products to Pugu Yehu.
Even if ordinary nobles want to buy Tang Dynasty products, they have to go through the dealer designated by Pugu Yehu.
Pugu Yehu took a sip of wine and said, "What about Datang's acquisition of horses, cattle and sheep?"
"Of course we have to rely on Ye Hu for this. From now on, we in Datang will only buy things from the Uighurs through the dealers designated by you."
Pugu Yehu then raised his wine glass and said, "When I saw you today, Special Envoy Shang is indeed a wonderful man. It's no wonder that the Khan will treat you as an honored guest!"
"Drink and drink, may the friendship between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs last forever!"
After the banquet, Zhang Leyan and Shang Bo returned to the trading station.
Zhang Leyan said dissatisfied: "President of the Chamber of Commerce! The goods are only sold to dealers, and we only buy goods from dealers. Everything in and out is controlled by others, and our profits will be gone!"
Shang Bo burped and said:
"Do you think we established a trading post on the grassland to make money?"
"Isn't it?"
"Of course not, we want to use trade to control the grassland."
"But what does trade control have to do with dealer exclusive sales?"
"Don't you know that the most reactionary class is the compradors? What we need is not to make money, but a bunch of Uighur compradors."
Shangbo stood up and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't make money now. When the Uighur comprador class stabilizes, there will be plenty of opportunities to make money."