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Chen Ying pretended to be a little helpless, and then helped him up, saying: "Speak carefully if you have something to say, don't just kneel... It is definitely not enough to give you food for nothing. After working hard for half a year, we have just enough food Eat, how can you give it away for free? But we can open a side market, and you can exchange things!"
Ashina Gushe said happily: "Really!?" Then he said in great frustration: "Even if the general is willing to reopen the border market, I'm afraid we won't be able to exchange anything, and now we have nothing!"
Chen Ying smiled and said, "Yes, you have something we need urgently!"
Ashina Gushe shook his head and said: "What else do we have... except for this bad life, there is nothing left!"
Chen Ying looked at Ashina Gushe and said indifferently, smiled without saying a word, everything was kept silent.
Seeing this scene, Ashina Gu looked at Chen Ying suspiciously and said, "What does General Chen need urgently?"
Chen Ying laughed and said, "Horse! Your horse!"
Ashina Gu set up a heartache, and said with difficulty: "We...we only have less than [-] war horses left!"
Chen Ying continued: "You have less than [-] war horses left, so... where are the horses? Where are the camels?"
Ashina Gushe was very surprised and said: "The general wants to lead the horse and the camel?"
In his impression, the only purpose of Datang to open the border market was to obtain war horses. As for the horses, there were many in the pass, and there was no need for them at all.
Chen Ying said with a smile: "There are still a lot of fertile land in Anxi that can be cultivated, but plowing and harrowing are inseparable from plowing and harrowing, and large livestock are inseparable from plowing and harrowing. It is too far to sell cattle from the pass, and the price is expensive, and the pass is too expensive. Cattle are needed, so I hope the little prince can bring a batch of draft horses and camels in exchange for food, we each get what we need, you get life-saving food, and we get enough animal power."
PS: Two changes to [-] and [-], after many days, it was restored to [-]+. It’s the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass, and it will be invalid if it expires.
Chapter 86 nips the threat in the bud
Chapter 86 nips the threat in the bud
Ashina Gushe licked his lips, and said excitedly: "If the general only needs camels and draft horses, it will be easy to handle. Father Khan may not have many war horses under his tent, but there are plenty of draft horses that cannot go to the battlefield." , as much as you want!"
Chen Ying laughed and said, "It's good to have a horse..."
Ashina Gushe said with some embarrassment: "General, I will send someone back to report and ask Father Khan to send a batch of draft horses, but I don't know that a draft horse can exchange for our food?"
Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "How about a stone of rice for a horse?"
Ashina Gushe frowned and said, "That's too little, at least three stones!"
Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "Three stones are too much! A horse is worthless at all. You can kill it and eat meat, but it's not worth it without food."
Things are selected by nature, the strong are respected, and the fittest survive.This is the only law in nature, especially in nomads.Now that the Turkic people are in short supply of resources, they feed all the limited fodder to the war horses and young and strong warriors. As for the draft horses that cannot be put on the war horses, they are already starving to the bone.Even if they gritted their teeth and cruelly killed the draft horse to eat meat, there was not much meat on a draft horse.
Ge Shunuer smiled and said, "It used to be worthless, but now it's worth a lot if someone needs it!"
Ge Shunuer looked at Chen Ying, and said in a low voice, "How about a horse for two stones of rice?"
Although draft horses are not as expensive as war horses, in Guanzhong, the price of an adult draft horse starts at least [-] yuan, like a fat and strong draft horse, it can even be sold for five rounds.
However, the grain in Guanzhong is about [-] yuan a bucket, which is always five shi.
Chen Ying wanted to agree, but Ma Zhou directly shook his head and said, "No... no, two stones for a draft horse is too much, at most one stone is two fights!"
Ashina Gushe was very frustrated.
In the eyes of the Turkic people, the draft horse is a bad horse. It cannot be ridden to fight, and it is useless at all. The Western Turkic people really do not lack such things.But the Turks are short of food, very short of it.Although horse meat can stave off hunger, it is rough and has a stronger fishy smell. It has no spices, and its taste and texture are extremely poor.The most important thing is that horse meat is not easy to digest, and it is usually fine. Turkic people are healthy and can overcome these difficulties.
But right now... horsemeat is unacceptable.Even if he didn't want to, Chen Ying could still find other Turkic tribes to trade, and there would always be many Turkic tribes willing to accept such a deal.
Alas, forget it, although a horse can only be exchanged for one stone and two buckets of grain, which is a bit of a loss, but this is a buyer's market, and how much it can sell depends on the mood of others. He can only accept it. If he can exchange it, it will be considered good .
When he was feeling depressed, he suddenly saw Liu Rengui walking in quickly, holding a saber in both hands and presenting it in front of Chen Ying.
Chen Ying took the saber from Liu Rengui, and then pulled out the saber casually, a cold light came out of the box, and the cold air pierced the skin.
Ashina Gushe was refreshed, and said enviously, "Good knife, good knife!"
Chen Ying handed the saber to Ashina Gushe, and said with a smile, "Try it."
Ashina Gushe took the saber and slashed it vigorously a few times. Although he was used to the scimitar, it was a bit difficult to use this kind of saber, which is closer to the miao knife, but the weight was just right, and there were simple threads engraved on it. Fighting with a knife will not let go even if it is stained with blood.
All let him like it from the bottom of his heart.
He flicked the blade with his fingers, and the sound was clear and buzzing. It was obviously made of high-quality high-carbon steel, which made him love it even more.Good steel is hard to come by, such a good knife may not be able to buy even with the same weight of gold, how can he not like it?
Chen Ying smiled faintly: "How about this knife?"
"Good...very good, much better than our scimitars made of inferior iron!" Ashina Gushe looked at Chen Ying expectantly and said, "Is this knife for sale...is this knife for sale?"
Chen Ying nodded and said, "A horse is exchanged for a saber!"
In fact, Chen Ying was also very helpless.
Now the generals of the Anxi Army have completed the replacement of high manganese steel armor and weapons.However, the original high-carbon steel blades and armors were useless. Even if Chen Ying distributed some of them to arm the people of Anxi, the Tang army had too much equipment.As long as it is steel, the most difficult thing to deal with is the oxidation of steel. Fortunately, Anxi lacks rain and the climate is relatively dry, so the oxidation will be slower.
There are tens of thousands of sets of armor and weapons in the treasury of the Anxi Army, and there is no way to deal with them. Even if they are stored, it will not only require manpower, but also cost storage.
Ashina Gushe said without thinking: "Deal, deal!"
As he said that, he rolled his eyes and said again: "Camels are not exchanged for rice, can we exchange weapons?"
Chen Ying said with a smile: "Yes, we have riding bows, walking bows, breastplates, sabers, spears, shields, whatever you like, just change."
Ashina Gu said: "Can you take me to your arsenal?"
Chen Yingdao: "Of course. Liu Rengui, you can take him there."
Liu Rengui responded, and took Ashina Gushe to the arsenal.
Beiting's arsenal is the general arsenal of the Anxi Army.
It was expanded on the basis of the former Beiting Old Seoul, and it didn't take much effort.
However, the entire arsenal has been divided into two, one is dedicated to storing cold weapons such as knives, guns and spears, and the other is a forbidden area dedicated to storing kerosene. Even Chen Ying can't just go there at will.
Liu Rengui took Ashina Gushe into the cold arsenal.
In fact, it is the Beiting City built during the Han Dynasty. Before coming to this warehouse, we first passed the trench, then passed the inner urn city, and after dozens of checkpoints, Ashina Gushe finally entered the warehouse.
The huge gate with a height of more than three feet is not an ordinary gate that can be pushed open, but has dozens of steel wheels on the bottom, and there is a creaking sound.
Ashina Valley looked at the huge warehouse as high as five or six feet, and was directly intimidated.
The weapons and equipment here are piled up like a mountain, and the wooden shelves are full of horizontal knives, densely packed, one next to the other.There are also spears, Ashina Gushe can swear that the spears here are even denser than the reeds flowing down the river.
There are relatively few bows, only a few thousand, but the number of crossbows is frighteningly large.And there are so many styles, such as arm stretching crossbow, horn bow crossbow, wooden single crossbow, large wooden single crossbow, bamboo pole crossbow, large bamboo pole crossbow, Fuyuan crossbow and winch crossbow.
The Tang army's crossbow tactics are extremely mature, forming a vertical strike range with eight cattle crossbows as the distance, Fuyuan crossbows in the middle, and single crossbows near.The range of the Fuyuan crossbow is about 450 steps (230 meters), the range of the broken crossbow is about 345 steps (300 meters), the range of the horn bow is about 160 steps (240 meters), and the range of the single bow is about [-] steps ([-] meters). rice).