Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1297

"Ah! General Zhao!" Bai Shiqiang's little headman smiled like a trumpet flower on the prairie, with a bright expression, he hurried forward and said, "Long time no see, General Zhao..."

This is a distribution point of Baishiqiang.The person in charge here is a small tribal leader from Baishiqiang who has also been to Pingyang, so he knows Zhao Yun more or less.

Although there is a large bazaar in Pingyang, not all Hu people are willing to travel to Pingyang to trade. Therefore, the small distribution center provided by the Baishi Qiang tribe has become the first choice of these Hu people.

This trade distribution center supplies the daily necessities of most of the northern part of Shangjun, including Gaonu, who either live in groups or scattered.

Zhao Yun glanced at the leader of Baishiqiang, and said calmly: "This is a captain, not a general."

The leader of Baishiqiang hurriedly bent down and added: "Yes, it is... Captain Zhao... But according to Captain Zhao's ability, he will be a general sooner or later..."

Zhao Yun couldn't deny it, and there was no sadness or joy on his face. He sat down with a golden knife and said, "Do you have any salt here?"

"Ah? Yes, yes..." The leader of Baishi Qiang hurriedly asked someone to fetch a jar of refined salt, and brought it to Zhao Yun himself.

Zhao Yun stretched out his fingers, picked out a piece of yellowed salt from the salt shaker, and threw it into his mouth.The bitter and salty taste melts in the mouth...

The so-called refined salt that Bai Shiqiang poured over was probably the salt gathered around Qinghai.Although it is said to be refined salt, it is actually not a white salt like later generations, but a plate-shaped body similar to northwest rock salt.Fragments of different sizes, more yellow and less white, feel astringent and bitter in the mouth.

Just like this kind of salt, it was already regarded as the best salt in the Han Dynasty.The salt eaten by ordinary people is not only yellow, but even black, and the bitterness is even more unstoppable. In this way, sometimes they can't eat salt, and they can only learn how cattle and sheep lick salty soil and rocks. ,

As for the snowflake salt sold by the Huang's workshop in Pingyang, it costs one tael of salt and one tael of gold, and there is even no market for it.

"How much more?" Zhao Yun pointed to the salt shaker.

The headman of Baishiqiang bent down and said respectfully: "There are about five cans left..." Salt is a necessity for people and large animals. Although lack of salt will not kill you immediately, it will also greatly affect your physical strength and endurance.So on the grasslands, salt is also a common commodity.It's just that this is a small gathering place, the warehouse is naturally not big, and the amount of goods in reserve is not large, and there are other materials that need to be stored. Five cans of refined salt are considered a lot.

"It's all there!" Zhao Yun frowned slightly, and said, "How much coarse salt do you need?"

"Coarse salt, there is some coarse salt, but coarse salt..." The headman of Baishiqiang was a little surprised and said in confusion, "Coarse salt is not as good as this..." The presence of Zhao Yun here is already confusing enough I didn't expect to come here to buy salt all of a sudden, and even coarse salt?
Zhao Yun waved his hands impatiently, and said, "Go get them all, I want them all! I want as much as I have!"

"Ah? Yes, yes..." The leader of Baishi Qiang was stunned for a moment, and then realized under Zhao Yun's face that was sinking like water, he hurriedly asked people to prepare, laughed with him, and cautiously wanted to ask Zhao Yun why he suddenly wanted to do this There was too much salt, but Zhao Yun took a look at it and retreated, so he had to show off to the Baishi Qiang people around him. After muttering twice in the Qiang language on the ground, some people served some kumiss, dried fruit and so on. , with a compensatory smile, carefully waited on her.

Zhao Yun had a sullen face. Although there were dried meat and wine in front of him, he didn't eat any of it. He just urged people to put salt in it. After all the salt was loaded into the car, he left a bag of Zhengxi Tongbao and left with the car...

The headman of Baishiqiang shook his hands, with a smile on his face. After Zhao Yun and his party disappeared from the back, he got down, poured out the Zhengxi Tongbao in the bag, roughly calculated, and clicked twice.

I didn't earn much, but I didn't lose much, so it's probably okay.

"What are these Han people doing here? They want so much salt all of a sudden? Did you come up with anything?" The headman of Baishi Qiang turned his head and asked the people beside him.

Zhao Yun refused to speak, so he took the opportunity to ask other Han soldiers...

As the leader of Baishi Qiang who can be in charge here, such a strange thing happened, how can he rest assured and sleep well if he doesn't figure it out?
"I asked...the Han people didn't make it very clear..." Baishi Qiang's clansman said, "I just know that General Zhengxi led the troops to go north, and was going to Yinshan, but the salt he brought was not noticed on the way, and it was melted by the rain. Quite a lot, and it’s too late for temporary deployment, so I came to our place to buy salt..."

"You, what did you say?" The headman of Baishiqiang was stunned for a moment, and then asked hastily.

"...I said that the salt of the Han people was melted by the rain, so I came to buy salt...Headman, you said that the Han people are stupid enough, and the salt was soaked by the rain in this rainy day, haha..." Baishi Qiang Some gloated and smiled.

"Laughing, laughing! I mean the previous sentence!" The headman of Baishiqiang slapped the back of the head of this incomprehensible clansman with a "slap".

"... Before, the previous sentence? General Zhengxi went north to Yinshan Mountain?" the clansman said, covering his head.

"That's right, General Zhengxi is here? Why did he go to Yinshan Mountain? What happened to Yinshan Mountain? The Huns rebelled again? Or are the Xianbei people here again?" Baishi Qiang's headman asked questions like a cannonball.

"Ah? This... this..." How could the people of Baishiqiang know these questions?Besides, I don't have time to ask in detail, not to mention that if I ask, no one will say it.

"Idiot! Trash! Damn you!" Bai Shiqiang cursed, turning in circles, murmuring something, his face turning blue and white.

Going to war?

This is no joke!
"Let's go now? Or wait?" The headman of Baishiqiang was a little undecided, and suddenly stopped, staring at the Zhengxi Tongbao in his hand, stunned for a while, and then immediately walked back, shouting as he walked He said, "Come on, go to the big tent and take out that black bear skin! Wrap it up and take it with you! Prepare some horses and come with me to visit General Zhengxi!"

The Han army is going north!General Zhengxi is going to Yinshan!
If there is really any war to be fought, he must move immediately!Otherwise, it would be really affected by the flames of war, and there would be nowhere to cry!
But the problem is that Zhengxi is just a routine border patrol. If there is no war, he will transfer so rashly. Not only will he lose this trading point, but he will also suffer a lot of losses along the way...

Bai Shiqiang is basically a middleman now, and what is the most important thing about a middleman?
Naturally, it is the credibility of business.

In this era, it is not like in the later generations. Hanging a sign can inform those barbarians who come to trade that our store has moved to a certain street, such and such, and turn right from here for 150 meters, etc., so that these barbarians People can find a new trading place, once they move, it means that all the original trade will be cut off, and if they want to re-establish trade habits and credit, it is tantamount to starting from scratch.

How could the Baishi Qiang leader be willing to do this?
Right now, since General Zhengxi is still in the mood to buy Tong Bao, it means that the problem is not too big, but no matter what, he still needs to find out clearly before he can let it go...

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Although the concept of clan of the Hu people is not as strong as that of the Han people, and they do not always emphasize where their ancestral home is, but it is not completely without differences in surnames, just like Huyan, Xubu, and Qiulin. The four surnames of Lan and Lan are the famous families among the Xiongnu.

But now, the Qiulin family has already existed in name only, and the Lan family has basically been exhausted on the battlefield following the split of the Southern Huns royal family.

The rest of the Huyan family followed Yu Fuluo in Yinshan, and the Xubu family knew that they were not well received by Yu Fuluo, so they stayed away from Yinshan and settled in Gaonu.

After all, after the death of Luanti Qiang Qu Shanyu, the Xubu clan was elected to succeed Luan Tiqiang Qu Shanyu. Although he was coerced, it was difficult to guarantee that Yu Fuluo had nothing in his heart, so he simply Staying away from Yuvro, it's better to see what's out of sight.

Huchuquan failed to raise his troops, and the news of his capture spread to the vicinity of Gaonu. Knowing that Huchuquan was detained in Yinshan Mountain to be dealt with, the people of the tribe directly under Huchuquan were naturally beaten by Shuang, while the Xubu clan It was a relief, and it was a few days of mocking and showing off.

After all, Huchuquan did not make things difficult for the Xubu tribe at the beginning, and now the cattle and sheep who were taken away by those Huchuquan tribe, or admitted to their mistakes, or lost, now mostly come back, of course Xubu Dierjin also controlled the emotions of the tribe a little bit, and did not oppress the remnants of Huchuquan too much in one go. After all, Huchuquan has not been formally dealt with...

As time went by, Subdeljin also began to mutter a little bit. After all, there was no news of Huchuquan being punished, which meant that the possibility of major incidents becoming minor incidents became higher and higher.

"Could it be that this Huchuquan can turn over again?"

Subdeljin twirled the emerald finger in his hand, muttering to himself.The emerald jade wrench in his hand was left to him by his father Xubu Guduhou during his lifetime, it can be regarded as a symbol or a token of the Xubu clan.

"Great Patriarch!" Just as Subdeljin was thinking, a member of the tribe suddenly stepped forward and reported, "Great Patriarch, we've run out of salt..."

"Huh? I've finished eating the salt? Why are you saying it now?" Subdierjin stood up, followed the tribe to the place where the supplies were stored, picked up the dark round clay pot for storing salt, and stretched his head to look at it. Look, I stretched out my hand to feel it again, except for some salt slag powder, it was indeed finished.

"Isn't there still a few days ago?" Subdeljin said with some doubts.

The clansman at the side said respectfully: "Yesterday the patriarch ordered to add some salt to the cattle and horses..."

People eat salt to be strong, and large animals also need to eat salt. Cows and horses that have been raised for a winter need to be fattened again in spring. Easy to get sick.

"The Qiang people in the south have moved away? Didn't you go and buy some?" Subdeljin handed the salt jar to the clansman at the side to put it away, and asked immediately.

The Huns did not produce their own salt either. Most of the salt was sold by the Qiang people who traveled to the Western Regions, especially the Baishi Qiang, who has basically become a big middleman now.

"I've gone..." the tribe replied, "But the Qiang people all said...all said..."

"What did you say?" Subdeljin didn't pay attention at the beginning, turned his head to look at the people at Huchuquan while asking, and said, "It's okay to say other things, you always need salt... …What did you say? The hesitant one is not a warrior of Changshengtian anymore!”

"What the Qiang people said is very strange..." the tribe said, "When there was no salt in the morning, we went to the Qiang people... We told the Qiang people that we need to buy some salt, and people also want cattle and horses... As a result, the Qiang people People say, our cattle and horses are almost gone, why do we need to buy salt... If they don't buy us salt, they want to buy our cattle and horses..."

Subdierjin was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the clansman and said, "...what do you mean?"

The clansmen who went out to find the Qiang people for trade shook their heads and said: "I don't know, anyway, the Qiang people are weird... We emphasized that we need to buy salt, but the Qiang people asked for too much, much higher...We said that we should buy salt first... Part of it was on credit, but the Qiang people said that they couldn’t get credit, that they wouldn’t sell our salt…”

"Why can't you pay on credit?" Subdeljin stared, "No! Why did you increase our price? What kind of bastard, where did you have the courage to increase our price? Are you new here? You didn't say it was us You need salt, not those messy little tribes!"

The clansman shook his head timidly and said, "It's the Qiang tribe in the south..."

"Idiot! Trash! Damn you!" Subdair roared angrily, then got on his horse with more than a dozen guards, got out of the big tent like a whirlwind, and galloped towards Baishiqiang.

When the sun was in the west, Subdeljin came back with a sullen face and a small pot of coarse salt.

After throwing a small pot of salt to the tribe, Subdeljin walked back and forth in the tent for a long time, then came out, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Come on! Call the tribe masters, let's go to Yinshan Mountain! "

"The patriarch? What's the rush?"

"General Zhengxi is heading north! The Han people are going to Yinshan Mountain!" Subduerjin roared in a low voice, "Damn Huchuquan! He wants to use Gaonu's livestock and people to follow what...what..."

Subdeljin suddenly got stuck, he seemed to have forgotten how to use the proper term, and after a long time he said: "...Anyway, I want to use Gaonu's people and animals to go to Zhengxi to offset his Guilty! The Han General Zhengxi went northward, and it was for this matter!"

"If you forgive your crime, you will pay for your crime..." The members of the Xubu clan have not yet reacted, "What does it matter to us if the tribe of Huchuquan commits a crime?"

"Are you deaf!" Subdierjin yelled, "Did someone say you belonged to the Huchuquan tribe?! It belongs to the entire Gaonu! It belongs to the entire area! Damn it, damn it!"

"What!" The members of the Xubu clan also jumped up, "Huchuquan's crime, what are you doing to us?"

"We know, how do the Han people know? Besides, the Han people don't care about this! The Han people only know that the soldiers from Gaonu! Of course, people from Gaonu must come to make amends!" The wild wolf in the cage bared its teeth, "That's why those wild dogs from Baishiqiang have come to attack us! These damn beasts!"

"...Patriarch, why don't we escape?"

"Escape? Where are you going? To the south is the Baishi Qiang, and beyond that is the land of the Han people, to the east is also the territory of the Han people, to the north is the Yin Mountain, and to the west..." Subdeljin smiled bitterly, and said, "To the west, to the west The other side is looking for death..." The west side is the desert land, which is a combination of Gobi desert and desert, although there is a little bit of vegetation, but it is really only a little bit.

"The only way is to go to Yinshan Mountain!" Subdeljin's eyes were gloomy, "If you want to atone for your sins, you have to be redeemed!"

(End of this chapter)