Although the clouds and scenery are different from China,

I also like the geography of the building is annoying.

White Feather Arrow's First Artillery,

The golden armor shines brightly.

If you want to sprinkle the dragon sand,

Repay the kindness of Mingguang.

—————————————— Wu Yuanheng "Out of the Stopper"

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Through Zheng Qi's introduction, Gao Yue suddenly realized.

It turns out that the short Yunnan horses are mostly horses raised in the eastern part of Nanzhao, which are small in size and usually not fed, but are released in the wild and free-range, mostly used for consignment of goods.

But the snow field area west of Erhai Lake, that is, in the Yuezhichuan and Mengshechuan areas where Nanzhao originated, is more abundant in horses.

Gao Yue became interested when he heard this, so he asked Zheng Qi how to raise this Yue Yun horse.

As a result, Zheng Qi said that the horse was led by a halter made of sedge grass after one year old, and it was fed porridge and rice juice within three years, and then began to feed concentrate feed after the age of five.

"The more the horse, the best blue and white hair, of which the cyan alias is 'Yue Qi', and the white is called 'Da Li Xue'." Zheng Qi patted the mane of the horse sent by Nanzhao and said.

Gao Yue muttered in his heart, the cost of this Yue Ma is really expensive, and later heard that the entire Nanzhao royal family spent a lot of money to raise 500 horses, and the original interest stopped: "It is better to let Qiang, Shatuo and Tuyuhun graze horses in Fengxiang, Jingyuan, and Yanzhou, which can better meet the needs of the army. ”

But Gao Yue still accepted the big snow, while Wei Gao accepted Yue and left the emperor a few relatively mediocre horses.

Presented together with the horse, there is also Nanzhao's specialty "unified vest", which is the horse armor worn by the war horse, which is subdivided into chicken neck armor (horse neck), door curtain armor (horse cheeks), "front crotch armor" and "back crotch armor", all of which are made of precision forging armor, which can be made of hair and strung with tough silk threads. "According to custom, Gao Yue is more concerned with the maker of the artifact than with the artifact itself.

The envoys of the Southern Zhao who paid tribute said respectfully: "Lishui (now Lijiang) is a bit of a sharpener, especially good at forging swords and vests. ”

"Does your edict grind some barbarian craftsmen?" Gao Yue couldn't wait to ask.

The envoy replied, "Yes, my edict has innumerable slaves, some of them farm for him, some of them graze for him, some of them dig for him, and some of them make weapons for him, and there are no less than three hundred armor and swordsmiths who sharpen some barbarian armor and swordsmiths.

After speaking, the envoy of Nanzhao proudly brought out three sharp weapons, saying that this was a gift from my family edict to the Tang family out of friendship.

"What is this?" Gao Yue and Wei Gao were both very surprised.

Seeing this weapon alone, the shape is like the remnant blade of a halberd, with the rhino horn as the hilt, the handle is decorated with gold jasper, and the iron is equipped with a golden dome, and the blade is a heavy blue-black, but it is very light in the hand, perfect and in harmony with the rhythm of human muscles.

Wei Gao waved this weapon that was not like a knife, and the sword was not like a sword, and with a slight stroke, the unified vest that Nanzhao had just presented was actually lightly split in a sonorous sound!

Even Wei Gao was stunned at this time.

"This is the sheath that has been forged by grinding some brutes." Zheng Qi said.

This kind of sheath, made of Lishui, repeatedly forged, and then inserted in the soil of the high mountains, dug holes on the side for ventilation, and sacrificed with horse blood every month, is a first-class divine weapon.

"There are seven of the best sheaths in the world, namely, Heavenly Descent, Lusamoqiu, Duo Rong, Duo Mana, Tong Duo, Zhu Di, and Yunfu. What I wear with me is the heavenly sheath, which is divided into left and right. Here are Tongduo, Zhu Zhen, and Yunfu three, given to the Tang family. ”

"Tongduo, Zhu Li, and Yunfu, what are the advantages and disadvantages of these three?" Wei Gao asked.

The envoy said that Zhu Zhi and Yunfu were better, and the same priest was slightly inferior, but they were all false weapons.

Then Wei Gao accepted the Zhu Jian sword, Gao Yue liked the name "Yunfu", so he took the Yunfu sword, and as for the slightly inferior Tongduo, he put it in the letter and left it for the emperor.

The horses, horse armor, and sheaths have all been seen, and those that should have been kept have also been retained, and there is nothing surprising about some of the marigolds, silver bottles, tube cloths, etc., which are there, and Gao Yue and Wei Gao are too lazy to explore.

Then Wei Gao took out 300 cavalry to escort the most honorable envoy of Nanzhao, the second edict, that is, the younger brother of Yi Mu Xun, to Luo Dong, and took these tributes to Chang'an City.

In front of the class, a cavalry of the Dingwu Army and the Fengyi Army marched from Kunming City, suddenly crossed the Lushui River to the west, attacked several barbarian tribes, captured more than 100 men and women, and stuffed them all into the car, "Send them to Shudu and Xingyuan, and forge swords and armor for the army." ”

In addition, Wei Gao settled the surrendered Xifan people, appointed Ma Dingde as the "Shepherd Envoy of Shanzhou", responsible for commanding them, stationed in Suqi County, and appointed the general Wu Dao as the military envoy of Taidengcheng and the assassin of Shanzhou, and brought 2,000 soldiers to guard Taidengcheng, build a field against Nanzhao, and open trade from March to May and October to December every year.

Wei Gao also sent an envoy to Dongchuan and asked Du Huangshang to also open a field in Rongzhou to trade with Nanzhao along the Shimen Road.

As for Lizhou, still let the three Dongban cultivate, Tang soldiers stationed in a few key military cities, once there is a police, drive to reduce Tibet and Dongban to fight, Wei Gao can lead the army as a reserve, so that 4,000 soldiers can be saved, saving nearly 100,000 military expenses every year.

What is the bulk of trade?

One is salt, and the other is sheep.

There are many salt ponds, salt springs or salt wells in Nanzhao, and the quality is very high, and the price is not expensive. As long as the border trade is opened, coupled with the salt wells of Xichuan, Xingyuan and Dongchuan, according to Gao Yue's calculations, it can meet the needs of Sanchuan in less than two or three years, and then there can be surplus sales to Shannan Dongdao, Jingnan, Eyue and other places, which is enough to compete with the sea salt of Jianghuai and Ziqing.

"Our Southwest Alliance, which respects the emperor, can fight a tie with Haiyan in the Kanto region by relying on Nanzhao and Sanchuan Salt, and if we add salt from Fangzhen, we can even achieve an overwhelming advantage." During the secret conversation in the tabernacle, Gao Yue said to Wei Gao with confidence.

"Which Fang Town?"

"Lingnan." Gao Yue replied with a smile.

Du You, who was there, not only did the sugar (cutting business) industry flourish in the past two years, but also began to cook sea salt (Pinglu Army by the sea, Zhejiang East by the sea, my Guangzhou doesn't rely on), and soon it will become the emerging salt source of the whole country.

As for sheep, Nanzhao breeds an amazing amount of sheep, and also knows how to make the sheared wool into "wool clothes", which is similar to the current woolen clothes, far lighter and more delicate than the woolen fabrics in the north, and can be tied directly to the body, which is very warm.

"In addition to the cotton supervision department immediately, it is necessary to set up a sheep supervision department." Gao Yue said with certainty.

As for the labor force in the prison, apart from the archers' families, it must be mainly slaves.

It seems that the number of slaves is still insufficient, and the next war can no longer be sold to private families, and should be given priority to the sheep prison department.

"Chengwu, this time I am a guest army, and you have to be a guest army when you go to Qishan immediately." After negotiating everything, Gao Yue made a clear request to Wei Gao, implying that he would soon leave Hechi City and focus on attacking Qishan.

This is not only a wave of afterglow of this war, but also an outpost of the next offensive.

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