Chapter 267: A Journey from Mobei (Part II)
"It turns out to be the Han Ministry......," said Apayataki, "but isn't the Han Ministry's vassal state?" At this, his eyes flashed twice.
"So this guy is pretending to be confused!" Xiao Tienu thought: "He even knows that we are a subordinate of the Jin Kingdom!" Then he sneered: "The Han Department and the Jin Kingdom Wanyan Department are in-laws, and now the Wanyan Department is perverse, and our Han Department will replace it!" ”
"Oh," said Apayataki, "but what is the matter with Guan Mobei?" This sentence has already asked the point.
Xiao Tienu said in his heart: "It's too early to subdue Mobei!" Then he smiled and said, "I'm not here for anything else, just to visit a good friend." ”
Apayatchi said: "Visiting friends, need to lead such an army? "In the final analysis, I am still afraid that Xiao Tienu wants to be detrimental to their clan.
Xiao Tienu said: "Is this an army?" In our case, an army of more than half a million people is considered a great army! I'm just going with you! ”
Apayatachi was quite awed when he heard this, and he also knew that there were many soldiers in the Central Plains, and he asked: "Then I don't know who the marshal is coming to visit this time?" ”
"I'm going to find Hebul in the Mongolian Ministry." Xiao Tienu said: "So when I got here, I just borrowed the way. If you are willing to lend your way and let our cattle and horses rest, then we will do a fair and undeceived deal with you, just like the merchants of the Han Dynasty. ”
Apayatchi hesitated for a long time before he said, "What if we don't want to?" ”
"Don't want to?" Xiao Tienu laughed: "Then we still have to go over, but we are stepping on your corpses!" ”
Apayatchi laughed dryly and said, "In that case, I'm going to go back and talk to the patriarch." ”
"Yes." Xiao Tienu said: "I will give you two days, and if you don't reply after two days, we will continue on the road." Whoever is my friend, I will treat him as a friend, give him gold, give him silver, give him glass treasures, and if anyone dares to stand in my way, then I will pave the way with the bones of all his people! ”
After Apayatchi left, Lu Yanlun said, "Sixth General, this person doesn't seem to be very honest. ”
"Hmm." Xiao Tienu said: "This area was originally a place directly under the jurisdiction of the Recruiting Division of the Northwest Road of Daliao, but he said that what is the place where they have been together for generations, this is obviously to deceive us It is an outsider who wants to deceive me, but I don't know that the sixth general I am half a local here!" There are wolves, sheep and foxes on the grassland, and most of this tribe are foxes. ”
Mughal said, "Then what shall we do?" ”
Xiao Tienu said: "There are many of us, and there are seven or eight times more people who can fight than their whole clan, and they dare not provoke us head-on." I guess if they're afraid, they'll probably run into the mountains for a while to avoid me. If they covet our possessions and plot against them......" Looking back on the disease, he said, "What do you think they will do?" ”
After thinking about it for a long time, he said: "I don't understand how to get sick, please ask the sixth general for guidance." ”
Xiao Tienu laughed and said, "They will invite me to meet their patriarch, if we bring few people to the meeting, they will ambush me on the road." If I don't fall for it again, they will pretend to be subservient and send someone to show us the way to a place of death, and then join forces with other greedy tribes to ambush us. ”
Apayatchi came back after a day's trip, and sure enough, he came to invite Xiao Tienu to the meeting, saying that the patriarch had set up a feast to entertain guests from afar, and that he had prepared a ranch for Xiao Ziqi's army to be stationed, and that the ranch was indeed a long distance from the banquet site. Xiao Tienu just smiled when he heard this: "Okay." The time and place were set, and the next day he asked Mughul to guard the camp, and he brought five thousand iron horsemen to go, and when he arrived at the meeting place, there were only a few elders from the Wugu Mountain Department, but the patriarch dragged ochre but was "sick" and couldn't come, just left a few elders to apologize.
He said with a sick heart: "Most of them don't dare to come because of the strength of our army." ”
Xiao Tienu did not blame, his face was very kind, and Apayataki said: "All the grass that goes down from this mountain can be used by the marshal to graze his horses. He also asked Xiao Tienu if he needed a guide to the Mongolian department.
Xiao Tienu said: "Of course you need it!" We're worried about how to go. ”
Apayataki said, "We just have a guide who has been to the Mongolian department, so it is better for him to lead the way." ”
Xiao Tienu was overjoyed, rewarded him with five taels of gold, and rewarded their patriarch with a bag of glass beads. And he said, "Our military uniforms are not hardy, so I will ask you to buy some clothes." ”
"We don't have enough clothes. ”
Xiao Tienu said: "Your people are more resistant to cold than us, maybe they will be better." So saying, he asked people to bring out some silk and cotton clothes, and said that they were willing to exchange them for such clothes.
These clothes are only available in civilized and developed areas, and even the patriarch may not be able to wear one in Mobei. Apayatchi is better, after all, he is a businessman, and he is only under the patriarch in terms of wealth in the clan, and although those elders also have a lot of status in the clan, the clothes on their bodies are only worn by beggars in Tanggu and Jinmen. Apayataki couldn't help but be moved, so he asked how to change the method, Xiao Tienu said that these clothes were exchanged with the ordinary clothes worn by their people, one silk dress for ten pieces, and one cotton dress for five pieces. When Apayatchi heard this, he thought to himself, "These Han people are fools! "Immediately agreed to be willing to exchange. Xiao Tienu sent the military merchant and changed a total of 500 clothes. The clothes of the Wugu Mountain Department were not enough, and some tents and flags were dismantled, some of them were changed slightly, and some of them were not changed at all.
The deal was done by Apayatchi secretly snickering, thinking that he had taken a big advantage.
After Xiao Tienu returned to the camp, he went to the sick and asked, "Is it a trick?" ”
Xiao Tienu smiled: "Let's see where they take us." ”
On the second day, the army pulled out of the camp and walked in the direction pointed out by the guide for two days, and when he became sick and worried, Xiao Tienu said: "Don't be afraid, I have walked this road, and I know where they are going to take us." That trap is five or six days away. ”
He asked, "So what do we do?" ”
Xiao Tienu said: "You don't know much about the war on the Mobei grassland, and I have to command the operation of this attack." The night after tomorrow, I will take someone to steal it overnight, and you and Mughal will guard our army and watch me do things!" ”
On the second day, when the army was on the march, someone suddenly came singing pastoral songs, and when they saw the army, they sang in Chinese: "Tianwei rolls across the Yellow River, and the Hu people are all singing Han songs......
Hearing the illness in front of him, he sent someone to call the shepherd in and asked the herdsman in Chinese: "Are you a Han Chinese?" ”
The shepherd said in Khitan dialect: "I am not Han, but I can sing this Han song." ”
The Khitan dialect of the disease was not very good, and a guard who knew how to do it next to him translated, and asked again: "How did you learn this Chinese song?" ”
The shepherd said, "I learned it from a merchant in the Han tribe. And he said, "I want to see the manager, I have a treasure to sell him." ”
Knowing that there was something wrong with him, he brought him to see Xiao Tienu and told Xiao Tienu about the strangeness of the herdsman's origin. Xiao Tienu didn't ask him what he was going to sell to himself, but asked him first: "Which part are you from?" ”
The shepherd said, "I am the Ulan of the Nine Divisions of Dadan. Then he asked, "Are you the commander of this army?" Our tribe has done business with the Han Ministry, and I heard those merchants say that the Han Ministry has seven generals, which one are you? ”
Xiao Tienu said: "I am the sixth general!" ”
"Oh." The shepherd said, "That's Xiao Dashuai." ”
Xiao Tienu smiled: "Yes." Then he asked, "What are you going to sell me?" ”
The shepherd said, "A goshawk's wings and a tiger's teeth." Although it may not be a tiger's, at least it can be seen that it is a beast's tooth, but the wings of the "goshawk" are too ugly, and those who don't know think that they are plucked chicken wings.
Xiao Tienu frowned at a glance and said, "This is a tiger tooth? Eagle wings? ”
The shepherd said: "After the goshawk fell into the net, the tiger fell into the swamp, and this is the end. ”
Xiao Tienu suddenly realized when he heard this, and asked, "Is there anything else for sale?" ”
"Nope." The shepherd said, "The patriarch has said, we must not sell too much, and the people will be unhappy if they sell too much." ”
Xiao Tienu nodded and asked, "What is your patriarch's name?" ”
"It's called Dami."
"Good." Xiao Tienu said: "Tell your patriarch that if I can return to the Han Dynasty, I will reward him for the rice that crushed the backs of 10,000 horses, and for the silk that can wrap all the women of the clan, and he can even use silk to make tents and night pearls to make pillows, and he will become the richest man on the grassland." ”
The shepherd smiled and said, "No, no. The merchants of the Han tribe have helped us, and our patriarch just hopes that the friends of the Han tribe will be safe. ”
Xiao Tienu smiled and asked again, "What's your name?" ”
"My name is Topgar."
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