Promises are true, and so are the impermanences of the world.

Gu Qing didn't want to deceive a poor person whose country was ruined, but the future was difficult, and in the face of the upcoming troubled times, he couldn't be sure if he could fulfill his promise.

The troubled times are like chess, I only hope that the land of Anxi can remain peaceful, even if it is impossible to do anything, at least there is a pure land.

"Can Master Hou really help Zhaowu Jiu rehabilitate and restore the country?" Kang Dingshuang's expression became excited.

Gu Qing nodded and said: "The surname Zhaowu Jiu is innocent, everything is just Gao Xianzhi's personal doing, in fact, the Tang Dynasty has no hostility towards you, Gao Xianzhi destroyed the Stone Kingdom and the Tuqi Shi, but the Chang'an Imperial Court did not give Gao Xianzhi any reward, from this point you should be able to guess the attitude of the Tang Dynasty Son of Heaven towards Gao Xianzhi's extermination of the Stone Kingdom." ”

With a sigh, Gu Qing said again: "Wrong is naturally wrong, but the court can't lose its authority, even if it's wrong, it can only hold on, so the pardon decree I issued said to forgive your sins, you are not guilty, but you still have to say forgiveness to the outside world, even if I find a step for myself on behalf of the imperial court, and also pave the way for you to calm the country in the future, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Kang Dingshuang was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "I can understand Hou Ye's painstaking efforts, the culprit is Gao Xianzhi, and I don't blame the Tang Dynasty Son or Anxi Army." ”

Gu Qing said again: "The culprit is Gao Xianzhi, but you can't kill him, if you kill him, the promise I made just now to rehabilitate and restore the country will all be null and void, and you will be the enemy of the Tang Dynasty from now on, and you will not be able to turn over from generation to generation." ”

Kang Ding was stunned, lowered his head and said: "Yes, I won't kill Gao Xianzhi, and even when I see Gao Xianzhi, I will salute." ”

Gu Qing sighed: "In the world, it is not easy to be happy and enmity, there are too many fetters, and you should not dare to make a move, for the sake of the word 'pros and cons', you have annihilated the good and evil of human nature, is it painful?" ”

"Pain."

"That's life."

Kang Dingshuang raised his head and couldn't help but ask: "Has Master Hou ever seen someone who is happy to take revenge?" Have you ever seen a person who doesn't care about anything for the sake of good and evil? ”

Gu Qing's eyes were misty, and he sighed: "I have seen, they are a group of real men, for the sake of morality, they don't care about their lives at all, in the face of the enemy's swords and guns, they have no hesitation to go forward and follow, and they are ......smiling when they die."

Kang Dingshuang was shocked and muttered, "What kind of people are that?" ”

"They are just ordinary people, but they want to do something for the people while they are alive, even if they can't change anything in the end, they did it after all."

Gu Qing's expression became lost, and he suddenly remembered his strange parents.

Before they died, what they thought about was the great man of chivalry, or the helpless child in a remote mountain village in Shuzhou?

Kang Dingshuang hesitated, for a long time, and said softly: "I am willing to assist Hou Ye, and during the five-year period, please don't forget Hou Ye." ”

Gu Qing nodded: "Okay, in five years, the imperial court will rehabilitate the surname Zhaowu Jiu in five years, and I will help you restore the country." ”

Kang Dingshuang said in an aggravated tone: "After the nine surnames of Zhaowu are restored, they are still willing to serve the Tang Dynasty as the suzerain, pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty Emperor every year, and pay tribute to the ministers." ”

Gu Qing continued: "The Tang Anxi Army is still under the protection of the Zhaowu Nine Surnames, no matter if any enemy dares to attack the Zhaowu Nine Surnames, the Anxi Army will send troops to help." ”

Kang Dingshuang stood up and said: "Master Hou, Kang Dingshuang will serve Lord Hou from now on." ”

Gu Qing said with a smile: "From today on, all the business affairs of the four towns of Anxi will be handed over to you, your task is to help me make money, I have a general scripture Chen, stop for a while and let someone send it to you, according to my scripture and Chen, within two years, I want all the income of the four towns of Anxi to meet the needs of the military and people in Anxi, and the money earned will be used to hoard grain, grass and weapons, and be ready for use at any time." ”

Kang Dingshuang said curiously: "Hoarding grain and grass weapons...... Anthy has had a big war recently? ”

"Maybe there will be a big war soon, and it's not wrong to take precautions after all......" Gu Qing said again: "By the way, the affairs of the merchants will be handed over to you, but the affairs of the merchants of Tubo will still be handled by me personally." ”

"Why?"

Gu Qing smiled mysteriously: "The merchants of Tubo are different, they are doing a big deal, a big deal. ”

Seeing that Gu Qing avoided answering, Kang Dingshuang said with interest: "Yes, the business of the Tibetan merchants will not be asked." ”

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Sure enough, the Tibetan merchants came again.

After the first batch of Tibetan merchants who tasted the sweetness, Lazawang, returned and soon organized a huge caravan to come to Qiuzi again.

This caravan consisted of 100 camels, loaded with various medicinal herbs from Tibet, mainly snow lotus and rhodiola rosea in the Tianshan Mountains, but also some gentian and coptis.

The speed at which the merchant inquired about the news was very astonishing, and the three of them returned to Tibet and were searching for all kinds of medicinal materials all over the world, but somehow they heard that Qiuzi City urgently needed a large number of Tianshan Snow Lotus, which was said to be very effective in treating gynecological diseases.

In the spirit of seeking truth from facts, Lazawang was skeptical, and took great pains to find a doctor from the Tang Dynasty in Tubo, who told him that the Tianshan Snow Lotus has a strong medicinal effect and has the effect of warming the uterus, and it is indeed effective for women's dysmenorrhea and uterine cold.

With the doctor's affirmative answer, the three of Razawang finally made up their minds, so they bought Tianshan Snow Lotus locally.

Not only did he buy, but he also replanted all the land under his name with Tianshan Snow Lotus, and tried to persuade other landlords to also change to Tianshan Snow Lotus, and they persuaded the landlords for a very simple reason, just to settle accounts for them.

How much can an acre of Tianshan Snow Lotus produce, how much can an acre of highland barley produce, and the price of selling an acre of Tianshan Snow Lotus can be worth ten acres of barley, can't you take the money from selling Tianshan Snow Lotus to buy grain by yourself? Tired of eating barley, let's spend money to eat wheat and rice produced in the Tang Kingdom, isn't it fragrant?

Isn't it fun to buy one acre of grain with the money from ten acres of land, and use the profits from the remaining nine acres to buy a few beautiful women and put them in the house?

The accounts were clearly calculated and easy to understand, and the landlords quickly understood.

It's just that the landlords hesitate about the price of medicinal materials, maybe this year Tang Kingdom urgently needs this kind of medicinal materials, but next year it is not needed, what should I do?

Lazawang told the landlords very firmly that if it was purely for the Tang army to treat injuries, he might not dare to guarantee whether there would be such a generous price next year, but the Tianshan Snow Lotus is for women, as we all know, women's problems are every month, it is impossible for the women of the Tang Kingdom to collectively go through menopause next year, so as long as the women still bleed every month, the Tianshan Snow Lotus must have a market and will be able to sell at a good price.

The landlords pondered it, and it made sense.

Military medicinal materials are indeed unreliable and may stop at any time, but civilian medicinal materials cannot be without a market, and the price may fluctuate a little, but the demand must be long-term.

In the world, only the plateau climate of Tubo can widely plant the snow lotus of the Tianshan Mountains, and the landlords of Tubo have inadvertently discovered a monopoly business, which is to be made.

Later, a group of Tibetan merchants came back from Qiuci City one after another, all of them were full of red light, and asked them if they had made a lot of money, and the merchants were reluctant to say it with a mysterious face, but it can be seen from their faces that this trip must have made a lot of money in Qiuci City.

As groups of Tibetan merchants returned to Tibet from Qiuzi City, seeing them hurriedly purchasing medicinal materials, the landlords and powerful people in Tibet could not sit still.

What do you rely on to buy and sell? It's a monopoly, it's unique to no one.

There are only a few wild natural medicinal materials, after searching once or twice, they are basically dug up, but the demand in the Tang Kingdom has existed for a long time, do you still expect to dig wild ones?

After weighing the pros and cons, the landlords of Tibet immediately decided to plant medicinal herbs, and the medicinal herbs they planted themselves may be a little worse than the wild ones, but the appearance is not bad.

Besides, I heard that the officials who purchased medicinal materials from the Tang State said that they disliked the wild medicinal materials that were ugly, not big, wilted, and the medicinal materials planted were taken care of by a special person, and the quality was much better.

As soon as a group of merchants who returned to Tibet were agitated, the landlords in Tubo could not sit still, and a large number of landlords were hesitant and still waiting, but a small number of landlords who dared to eat crabs had ordered the land under their names to be planted with medicinal herbs.

In this matter of making money, support the bold, starve the cowardly, and wait until everyone plants medicinal herbs, and the daylilies are cold.

Lazawang, who had returned to Qiuzi City, stood in front of Gu Qing with his eyebrows fluttering, and his face was proud.

This time he came back in high spirits, because he brought enough medicinal herbs, a hundred camels, a caravan of more than two hundred people, and a huge caravan brought a huge amount of goods, which meant a huge profit that was about to arrive.

The Bodhisattva asked him to send it, but he didn't dare not send it, not only to send it, but also to make a big haircut.

I was beaten by the generals of the Tang State last time, and this beating was too worthwhile, and the cost performance was very high.

"What are you happy about? Is a hundred camels a lot? Do you know how many soldiers and horses there are in our Anxi Army? On average, each person can't get a leaf of medicinal herbs, what are you proud of? Gu Qing unceremoniously poured a basin of cold water on Lazawang's head.

"Master Hou, the villain has tried his best, but the villain dares to guarantee that the number of medicinal materials will increase in the future, and he is afraid that Lord Hou will not be able to afford the price." Razawang said with his head held high.

Gu Qing sneered: "Gui'er's tone is not small, and he has no money to give, my Datang fart is enough for you to eat Tubo for half a year." ”

Lazawang's cheeks twitched, and he said aggrievedly: "Master Hou is too rude to speak......

"What can you do with me with this temper?" Gu Qing glanced at him and said, "The price can't be tripled this time, what happened to the last time I sold it at three times, you know it yourself." ”

Lazawang was anxious: "We have worked hard thousands of miles to solve the urgent needs of the Hou Ye, and we have transported so many medicinal materials, the price is not less. ”

Gu Qing thought for a while: "Press double, and in the future, you will press double, if you are not satisfied, you will transport the medicinal materials back, I won't tell you, there are many Tubo merchants in Qiuci City, they have all got the news, and now they are wantonly searching for medicinal materials in Tubo, and when the medicinal materials are transported to Qiuci City, the price will definitely be affected, do you like to sell it or not." ”