Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

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Zheng Guanyin saw that Li Jiancheng was wearing thin clothes, and quickly took a leather robe and put it on Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng's eyes were deep and deep, as if he wanted to penetrate the sky, looking at the northern border.

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On the Yinshan sheep winding road, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tang army, leading horses, climbed the steep hillside with difficulty in the wind and snow.

From time to time, horses and soldiers fell off the cliff.

However, apart from the rumbling sound, none of the soldiers and war horses made any sound.

Li Jing followed the team, staggering and climbing, his face covered with frost.

If you observe carefully, you will definitely find that whether it is Tang army generals or war horses, they all have horses with titles.

The so-called horse-biting was used in ancient wars. Troops rode horses and went to steal camps to attack the enemy at night. In order not to let the enemy find out, they wrapped the horse's hooves with cloth and stuffed things in the horse's mouth, so that the horse ran When you get up, you don't make a sound, and if you have something in your mouth, you don't bark, and then pay attention to restraining the horse, and you can quietly approach the enemy's camp.This is called a beam of horses.

Finally, it was difficult to pass the Yin goat winding road.

The generals and soldiers of the Tang army all jumped over the Yin Mountain, and they were still several miles away from the Baidao Jieli Yazhang at the foot of the mountain.

Xiao Nuo's face was full of cold, he walked up to Li Jing and bowed, "To the general, 170 brothers are lost, and there are... 25 brothers who were frostbitten."

Li Jing nodded, and took out the small wooden stick from his mouth, which was instantly frozen into a popsicle.Li Jing threw the popsicle on the ground, and said in a warm voice: "Everyone has worked hard, pass the order, rest for an hour, and then prepare to fight."

Xiao Nuo clasped his fists in salute, then ran out to deliver the order.

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Mobei Baidao, in the Turkic camp.Outside an inconspicuous small tent, a few Turkic soldiers peeked through the gaps in the tent to detect the movement inside.

In the small tent, Tang Jian and several Turkic nobles were sitting around the fire, talking and laughing.

Ashinasheer came over and kicked the soldier's ass.

The soldiers hurriedly turned around and saluted Ashinasheer.

Ashinasheer tapped the tent with his chin.

The soldier hurriedly replied, "Emissary Tang is drinking and chatting with the elders."

Ashinasheer sneered and said, "Let them talk slowly, and when our people are all together, the Great Khan will naturally settle accounts one by one."

Ashinasheer finished speaking, and left the small tent triumphantly.

Inside the small tent, Tang Jian listened to the footsteps outside the tent, with a confident smile on his face.

A Turkic elder held kumiss and asked cautiously in poor Tang dialect: "Honorable Tang envoy, if our Turks surrender to the Tang Dynasty, can I go to Chang'an for herds?"

Tang Jian laughed out loud as if he had heard a joke.

After a long time, Tang Jian stopped laughing and said, "Elder Osman, there is no grass in Chang'an City. Even if someone plants some flowers and plants in the garden, those flowers and plants are extremely precious. A pot of flowers is much more expensive than a sheep."

Elder Osman asked, "If you don't herd sheep, what will you Tang people eat and drink?"

"We eat snow-white soft steamed buns, white glutinous rice, and golden millet!" Tang Jian said with a smile: "Drinking millet porridge with a plate of salted soybeans in winter, the taste is indescribably beautiful." .”

Osman asked again: "Even if it is a golden mountain, if you sit on it and eat it, it will be eaten up one day. What should you do if you have no money?"

Tang Jian did not answer Elder Osman's question directly, but instead asked: "Elder Osman, how many sheep, how many horses, and how much money do you have?"

When Osman heard this, a smug expression appeared on his face. He thought for a while and said, "I have..."

As he spoke, Osman stretched out one hand, and then stretched out the other hand.

Tang Jian said: "Ten thousand sheep?"

Elder Osman shook his head and said, "15 sheep, [-] cattle, and [-] horses!"

Tang Jian didn't know how the Turkic people's brain circuit was long, why one pair of hands and ten fingers represented 15 sheep, 200 cattle, and more than 15 war horses!However, he still said seriously: "In Chang'an, a sheep can be sold for more than [-] yuan, [-] is [-] guan, a cow can be sold for [-] guan, [-] is [-] guan, plus war horses. If you put the money in Datang Tongli Bank and deposit it with a fixed interest rate for three years, you can earn [-] guan in interest every year. Do you know how much grain you can buy with [-] guan?"

Osman asked puzzledly, "How much?"

Tang Jian said: "Five thousand stones!"

Osman exclaimed: "So much?"

Tang Jian continued: "Actually, you don't have to go to Chang'an. If you go to Taiyuan or Lingzhou, there are branches of Datang Tongli Bank. Go there and sell the cattle and sheep directly, and take the money to Chang'an to enjoy the blessing!"

After Tang Jian flickered.

The elders finally knew that there was a bank in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. Even if they didn't know how to do business or herd sheep, as long as they put money in the bank, they could eat and drink without worrying about it.

Of course, Tang Jian didn't tell them these elders.

An inconspicuous house in Chang'an City would start at thousands of guan, and the most common three-entry courtyard, with more than a dozen houses, would cost tens of thousands of guan.

For example, Elder Osman's [-] Guan can only barely buy a large house covering an area of ​​more than ten acres in a remote square like Anhuafang or Qujiangfang in Chang'an City.

Of course, you have to spend a few thousand to buy a smaller house.

However, in Chang'an, not only food, but also meat can be called really expensive.The mutton they are used to eating now costs more than 20 yuan a catty, while the beef costs more than 100 yuan a catty.

One hundred thousand pennies sounds like a lot, but it really doesn't take long to spend seriously.

Tang Jian felt that it was still unknown whether these Turkic elders could live to go to Chang'an, so there was no need to tell them so much.

When it was almost dawn, Tang Jian was woken up by people screaming and neighing outside, wrapped himself in furs, and went to the tent door to have a look.

Tang Jian asked, "What happened?"

The attendant who was watching at the door said blankly: "I don't know, it seems to be our people."

Tang Jian was stunned and said, "How did they come here? Didn't Jieli send tens of thousands of troops to guard the road?"

The attendant shook his head excitedly and said, "Mr. Tang, should we light the fire and remind our troops not to accidentally hurt our family members."

Tang Jian slapped the attendant and shouted angrily, "Get out!"

The attendant covered his face in aggrieved expression.

Tang Jian said again: "Hurry up and hide first, do you want to be chopped into meat by the Turks?"

The servant was at a loss.

Tang Jian hurriedly got into the tent, and then pushed open the firepit with all his strength.

The soil was baked by the firepit and the soil was extremely soft. After a while, Tang Jian dug a big hole that could fit two people.