12,000 catties of tea, even the chief stationed in Jiacheng's party department, after hearing about it, he couldn't help but be moved. I personally went down the mountain to invite this tea merchant from the Han land.

"If you don't drink for one day, you will have diarrhea, and if you don't drink for three days, you will get sick." For nomadic tribes, tea is something more necessary than salt. Without salt, it can be obtained from the blood and milk of livestock, but without tea, it will be sad for them.

Nomadic people, who eat milk and meat as their staple food, if they do not drink tea regularly, the consequences will be very serious, and they are prone to many diseases, resulting in short-lived death.

Therefore, in today's border trade, tea is the most popular, and even tea bricks have become hard currency in pastoral areas.

Tang Jian met with the chief, and generously gave a set of white porcelain tea sets produced in Xingjiao, Hebei, which were very exquisite, and the porcelain was as white as paper.

This is a representative of northern porcelain, while in contrast to it is celadon produced in Jiangnan.

A set of fine white porcelain, that is a symbol of status, although almost every family in the Central Plains official eunuch clan has it, but for the Qiang people here, this is a good thing.

The happy chief directly returned a good Qiang horse to Tang Jian, and the courtesy was still exchanged, and Qiang Rong also understood.

Tang Jian immediately became the chief's honored guest and entered the county town of Jiacheng.

Going up the mountain into the city, Tang Jian secretly looked at the city, and found that the city was built along the Min River, but it was built on the mountain, the city was not big, and it looked a little dilapidated, but it was very dangerous.

After entering the city, I found that there were few people in the city, but there were many Qiang people.

Through some conversation, Tang Jian learned that this chief was the son of the head of the Xifeng tribe in the eight departments of the party, named Xifeng Bulai.

"I sealed the party for the majority, first I followed my father to capture this city, because of the bravery, so my father gave me this place."

Thin seal step on the hair, shaved on the top of the head, left a defense on each ear, two arms also tied to an arm, one ear also hung a big gold ring, the person is tall and strong, and can speak good Chinese.

In this respect, they are not considered to be Qiang.

As early as the fourth year of the emperor's reign, the then party Xiang Qiang ministries attached to the Sui Dynasty under the leadership of Tuoba Ning Cong, and were placed in the Lintan area of Lintao County, and the imperial court granted the official position of the head of the ministry.

Later, in the sixteenth year of the emperor's reign, the Dangxiang Qiang tribes jointly sent troops to attack the Sui Dynasty Huizhou, but the result was a big defeat and loss, and the Dangxiang Qiang tribes were afraid, so they sent an envoy to ask for guilt and sent their children to Chang'an as hostages.

As the son of the head of the Xifeng tribe, Xifeng Bulai also went to Chang'an as a hostage at that time, and after arriving in Chang'an, they were first arranged to study in the Guozijian, and later selected some brave warriors to serve as the emperor's guards.

He stayed in Chang'an for several years, and then returned to Qiangdi, and it was precisely because he stayed in Chang'an for many years, so after the fine sealing department captured Jiacheng, he deliberately let this son manage it.

He led a thousand people to come here, but he also managed it well, although this place is no longer as stable and lively as it used to be, but at least it has settled down, and there has been no accident in occupying this place for several years.

"I heard that the party and the Qiang departments, with the Tuoba Department as the most powerful? At that time, the party departments returned to Sui, and it seems that Tuoba Ningcong, the leader of the Tuoba Department, was also led. Tang Jian said with a smile.

As a result, this provoked the fine seal Bulai who was not very satisfied.

"The Tuoba Department was not from our party, they were originally from the Xianbei Tuoba Department, and later entered the Qiang land, so they also became a member of our party, but they are not really party members."

In the words of the fine seal Bulai, he revealed his dissatisfaction with the most powerful Tuoba department among the Qiang tribes of the party today.

The Tuoba Department is the strongest among the eight divisions, with a strength of 10,000 horses, in comparison, the Fine Seal Department is only about 5,000 horses, and the other six departments, some only have two or three thousand horses.

In that year, the Sui Dynasty was attached, and it was indeed the Tuoba Department that took the lead, but later the Fine Seal Department was also very dissatisfied, which also led to the Dang Xiangqiang Rebellion in the sixteenth year of the Emperor's reign, and that rebellion was actually provoked by the Fine Seal Department.

It's just that the rebellion was defeated, and the party Xiang Zhuqiang was forced to go south into the Bumaoqiang land, and even had to send his children into Chang'an as hostages to pay tribute to the golden Qiang horses.

After being a grandson for many years, when the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, the party Xiang Zhuqiang couldn't help but send troops again, among which the most active was still the fine sealing department, and they took the lead in capturing Jiacheng County, the gateway to western Sichuan.

Each surname of the party is a tribe, the big one rides more than 10,000 horses, and the small ones ride two or three thousand. They are still martial arts, they can't be ordered, they are each for their livelihood, and if there is a battle array, they gather together, without Yao Fu, and they don't interact with each other.

Shepherd yaks and sheep, hunt for food, and do not know the crops.

This is the basic state of the party members, all parts of the scattered herding, usually do not interact with each other, food, clothing, housing and transportation all rely on animal husbandry, once there is a plague or a heavy snowstorm, they can only gather to invade the Han land to rob, or to rob other tribes, otherwise they will starve to death.

They worship the gods and are cremated after death.

What these people advocate most is force, and what they pay attention to is to do it if they are not satisfied, and they also respect the strong, and they will obey whoever hurts them.

The same clan is also very united, once hurt by a foreigner, must take revenge, and even stipulate that before revenge, you have to be unkempt and barefoot, and prohibit meat, until you kill the enemy, you can return to normal.

After killing the enemy, they sacrifice their heads to the gods and comfort the people, which they call the blood retribution.

They also revered white, the color of the snow-capped mountains, and they believed that the gods lived on them.

The departments of the fine Feng clan, the Fei Ting clan, the Xiang Li clan, the Pochao clan, the Yeli clan, the Fang dang clan, the Mi Bao clan, and the Tuoba clan are called the eight departments of the party.

"Your 12,000 catties of tea, I have all the bags, the price is negotiable, and we have a lot of fine seals."

Although black tea is the worst tea, in Qiangdi, thirty or forty catties of tea can be exchanged for a horse, even if it is the best horse, it is only seventy or eighty catties of tea at most.

More than 10,000 catties of tea are just a few hundred horses.

"If my batch of tea is transported to Xishan, it can be exchanged for more than a thousand horses." Tang Jian said with a smile.

Xishan is not a mountain, but refers to a large area in the west of Sichuan, which is probably a large area of Qiang land such as Snow Mountain, Minjiang River, Qionglai Mountain, Jinchuan and Dadu River.

In the north of Jiacheng, the upper reaches of the Minjiang River reach Minshan, that is, to the Jiuzhaigou area of later generations, which are all Deng Zhiqiang people, also known as Baishui Qiang. To the west of Jiacheng, the area of Ruoergai and Hongyuan and Aba in later generations is the territory of the Misang and Chunsang tribes.

And the southwest of Jiacheng, the area of Dajinchuan, is Jialiangyi and the tribes of the vassal state, and the vassal tribes are also the eastern queen and the eight tribes to which she belongs recorded in the history books of the Sui Dynasty.

To the east of Minshan, there are the Zhushu Qiang tribes, and there are also bureaucrats who migrated from the Southern Dynasties.

These tribes are collectively known as the Xishan Zhuqiang.

In the west of Minshan, south of Maijishan, it is Dangxiang Qiang, and to the west of Dangxiang Babu, it is Bailanqiang.

This situation is very complicated, originally between the party and Jiacheng, but also separated by the north of Baishuiqiang, and the west of Jiacheng Misang, Chunsang and other Qiang.

But the fine sealing department took advantage of the Sui chaos to seize Jiacheng, and the Misang Chunsang and other departments now have to rely on the party Xiangqiang. And the party Xiang Qiang was a vassal to the more powerful Tubo.

"It's not kind for you to pass by my place and sell the tea I need to Xishan Zhuqiang." The fine seal Bulai played with the meat cutting knife in his hand, and his words were threatening.

Tang Jian just smiled slightly.

"If the leader of the fine seal really wants to make a big deal, I still have a big deal here, but I don't know if the head of the fine seal dares to do it, if you have the courage to do this deal, it will not be comparable to ten thousand catties of tea."

The knife spinning in the hand of the fine seal Bu Lai stopped, "Oh, there is such a big deal, it is better to hear it, this Xishan has no business that I dare not do in the fine seal Bu Lai!" ”

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