Deciding to marry Lou Fu, Zhao Xing hugged Lou Di's shoulder: "My good Anda, your output is only cattle and sheep, in fact, the Central Plains can also graze cattle and sheep, so your cattle and sheep are not necessary materials in the Central Plains." Once the relationship between the two sides is strained, they can close your only means of turning things into money. ”

Loudi nodded bitterly: "Yes, the cattle and sheep produced by our grassland people can be eaten or not eaten by the people of the Central Plains." Therefore, when our relations persisted, the countries of the Central Plains began to seal the borders again, leaving countless cattle and sheep to die of hunger on the grasslands. And we don't have anything we can get our hands on in exchange for the Central Plains materials we need, even if it's a stitch and a thread. So in order to survive, we have to break this blockade with our lives, so we have to become enemies again, and both sides hurt each other, and I really can't bear it. ”

The current Loudi has been slowly influenced by Zhao Xing, affecting the bone marrow. He aspires to join China, but he must think about his own community. He hated war, but he had to pick up a cutlass again and again.

The current Loudi is not a barbaric Loudi, he has been assimilated by Chinese culture, to be precise, by Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing sighed sadly: "We are good brothers, brothers, you are Zhao Ren's good brothers, brothers." In the face of my own brother, how can I not break my heart for you? ”

With such a confession, Lou Di burst into tears of gratitude, and Xu Jie had goosebumps all over his body - too numb.

"Suppose, I teach you a new way to make goods, so that in addition to the dispensable cattle and sheep in the Central Plains, you have a commodity that is unique to you, and the Central Plains people must have, something that cannot be missing. Then, you have a steady stream of income, and with this only commodity you have, you can break the blockade that may arise in the future, so that you can have no worries about food and clothing, and you will still start a war? ”

Lou Di immediately rejoiced: "If there is such a thing that can ensure that we can get rich food and clothing at any time, why don't I live in harmony with the Zhao people for generations, why should we use the lives of our young warriors to do useless battles?" ”

Then solemnly promised, "When the time comes, please accept my tribe to become a member of the Zhao State, and let us always guard the northern territory for the Zhao State." ”

Zhao Xing patted him on the shoulder with emotion: "You are not a hero, you are a real hero." Only those who give up their desire for power and fight for their nation wholeheartedly can be called national heroes. ”

Lou Di took Zhao Xing's hand: "You did the same, then you and my brother are two national heroes." ”

Zhao Xingshen thought so. "This is the purpose of the 100 smartest and most clever women I have left behind. I will teach you a product made from the wool you have discarded, and it will be sold throughout the Central Plains and become a necessity for the middle-aged people. Then you will have a wealth you did not expect. In order to get goods like yours, my Central Plains people must voluntarily break the blockade. ”

Loudi was completely stunned, because in this era, and even later in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the sheep on the grassland shed their hair in summer, and for the grassland people, it was not wealth, it was a burden, a useless burden.

"I will give it to these women, the method of degreasing the wool, and then let the women and children of Lou Nu weave it into wool, and then let me marry the twenty thousand women of you to weave cloth, that is not called no, I will call him Ni, Maoni."

For this kind of complicated explanation, Lou Di doesn't understand.

Zhao Xing patiently explained: "It is still in the era of warm winter, but as time goes by, the winter in the whole north and south will become colder and colder." And now there is no cotton, what is cotton? It's the details, and the details don't need to be called. All in all, the current Central Plains people, when they are cold in winter, the rich and noble can only use three layers of linen clothes inside and three layers outside to keep warm. And the people of the middle and lower classes can only tremble on the fire kang I invented. Therefore, for the people of the Central Plains, the whole winter is a season where nothing can be done, delaying production and life. ”

Loudi Xu Jie and others all agree with this view. It is for this reason that the people lose 1 quarter of the time of the year. And as a militant, it is tantamount to losing the opportunity to start a war in winter.

"But this is my way, using your discarded wool to weave a thick and warm Maoni. If the delicate girls add exquisite patterns, it will become the winter clothing of the entire Central Plains nation. Then confidently patted Lou Di's shoulder: "When the time comes, it will not be for you to ask the Central Plains people again to get the life you need." Rather, on the other hand, the people of the Central Plains must beg you to obtain these wintering cloths. When the time comes, will the Central Plains people still be able to blockade you and put you in a desperate situation? ”

Hearing such a vision, Loudi gave up the trip back to his grassland, and stayed with these hundred women, he wanted to witness the production of this kind of thing, he wanted to see the magic of this kind of thing with his own eyes. Because this is their hope for a prosperous life in the future.

Weaving Maoni, for the women of the Central Plains, the only difficult thing is degreasing, and the rest, what kind of spinning and weaving, every woman will.

Just 10 days later, the first Maoni was born, and Loudi took off the heavy old sheepskin robe that had been worn for generations and put on the thick woolen robe. doctor

Thick and warm and close-fitting, the whole person has become spiritually civilized, standing in the tuyere, for a full hour, and then Loudi came to Zhao Xing's face, and fell to his knees, no longer calling Zhao Xing Anda, but calling Xingjun with a solemn expression, which is equivalent to surrender.

Zhao Xing helped him up solemnly: "We are still safe, this will not change in this life and this life." If you will call it by the most serious words, when the time comes, call me the king.

Lou Di left, taking the hundred-master-level woman that Zhao Xing handed over to them, with infinite gratitude to Zhao Xing, and the idea of seeing Zhao Yong in his heart.

Looking at Zhao Xing, who was still tearful and bidding farewell to those Central Plains women, Xu Jie stood side by side and asked, "Don't you feel guilty about what you just said?" Do you have to resort to such despicable means if you want to settle a possible war in the north? Can't we completely conquer Lou Fu? Even if we can't now, we can't develop it for ten years? Do you have to do that? ”

Xu Jie refers to the 20,000 women that Zhao Xing married out, and the strict requirement that they go back to their parents' homes to visit relatives every year.

Zhao Xing sighed: "The people of the Central Plains, with technology and population wealth, have conquered the grassland peoples countless times, but they have been harassed by the grassland peoples countless times, do you know why?" ”

Xu Jie didn't know.

"Because, for example, I conquered the Lou Nuren in front of me, but in the near future, because of the weather, because of ambition, because of greed, they will invade the Central Plains again. And if I completely destroy him, then, that huge grassland will be occupied by another nomadic people, go to Lou Fu and have Linhu, go to Linhu and have Donghu, Xiongnu, Xianbei, etc., endlessly.

Only I use this method to turn Lou Fu into a part of our Central Plains people, and only when they occupy it can they have long-term peace and stability. ”

"Then what if a few years later, Lou Nuren, who has the blood of the Central Plains, also invades the Central Plains because of ambition?"

"That's different, because it's not an invasion of the alien race, it's a brotherly conflict."

Xu Jie asked, "Is there a difference?" ”

Zhao Xing asked rhetorically: "Is there no difference then?" ”

Xu Jie was confused.

Zhao Xing went home.

Just three years later, when Zhao Xing was walking in the grassland again, the cries of his uncle's children were everywhere, which caused Zhao Xing's pocket happiness to suffer a heavy loss.

And ten years later, when he went to the grassland again, he saw the boy of the Central Plains family galloping on a war horse, speaking the language of the Central Plains everywhere, and seeing simplified characters.

Thirty years later, the Lou Nuren no longer admit that they are Lou Nuren, and they proudly cast contemptuous glances at the other barbarians, claiming that they are the nephews of the Central Plains and truly civilized people.

Forty years later, when Macedonia crossed the Indian invasion to the border of the Central Plains, there was such an iron-mounted lion, both civilized and fierce, who followed Zhao Xing's army and wiped out Macedonia.

Mother's family, generations of relatives, broken bones and tendons.