Chapter 63: Unfair Trade

The price of greedy joy is very serious, at least Zhao Wan has been resting in the house the next day, except for going to give Wang Rouhua tea to her new daughter-in-law. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tie Xinyuan was lying on the soft couch, and Meng Yuanzhi, who was lying on the other soft couch, discussed the matter of sending troops without a word.

The scouts sent out have been sending out a steady stream of new news about their destinations, and the food problem in the country is still serious, and sending troops is already an urgent matter.

After the victory with the Uighurs, the Qarakhanid finally quieted down and stationed his troops at Gaochang, waiting for his logistics to keep up with the advance of the army.

Many parts of the Uighur kingdom were deserted, and the empty towns and villages made the Qarakhanid feel like they were heading for hell.

Religious fanaticism could not make the Qarakhanid ignore his own life and death, so after six days in Gaochang, in view of the lack of supplies, he left behind an army of 20,000 men in Gaochang, and the rest of the army began to turn back to meet his logistics army.

From the old nest of the Qarakhanid Balasagon to Gaochang, it is necessary to walk a section of the famous Tianshan Ancient Road, that is, the Tang Seng Ancient Road.

This 800-mile-long mountain road has become the biggest obstacle to the Qarakhanid's supply road.

"Do you say that the Qarakhanid is now regretting his policy of enslavement to the Uighurs?"

Meng Yuan, who was slowly drinking tea, asked Tie Xinyuan directly.

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said: "Religious, it is generally irrational, and God is naturally omnipotent when they live in their heads.

However, their physical bodies are very realistic, so it is not surprising that Qarakhanid has such an inconsistency. “

"You're saying they didn't even think about supplies when they first attacked?"

Naturally, they thought that their needs could be met by killing and plundering, but they simply forgot that it was natural to do so in the first place, and that after a long time of doing so, the people of the Uighurs were not stones, and they knew that danger was coming but did not know how to flee.

Therefore, the problem they faced in the later stage was the enemy's strong wall. “

Meng Yuanzhi said worriedly: "Will we also face such a problem?" ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "We are only doing the initial and marching into the Uighurs, we are just using the fastest speed to occupy the Uighur King's material distribution center.

As soon as we got our stuff, we returned to Hami along the Tianshan Road, and we would never stay any longer in the Uighurs. ”

"What are the odds?"

"God knows, only after the fight will I know that Mr. Great is now making every effort to collect the situation of the Uighur country, and in ten days, there should be definite news, and there will be a definite judgment on whether or not he can send troops at that time."

"The troops of the Xiping Military Division of Western Xia are being transferred, and it is said that the target is Zhuo Luo and the Southern Military Division near Lanzhou, and the Gansu Military Division is also moving closer to Zhuo Luo City.

It seems that the Western Xia people know better than the Qingtang people what the Great Song Dynasty wants to do. ”

Tie Xinyuan patted his sullen head and asked, "Where is your goal?" Where are you going to stop? ”

Meng Yuanzhi sighed and said: "I will be the forerunner, Li Qiao will press the formation, Suzhou will be the last city we can reach." ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "The Western Xia cavalry drove two hundred miles in advance in one day, so you have to be prepared for this."

Send another scout to take a look, and only after you are sure that the above information is correct, you can do it.

I'm not worried about whether you'll break in, but whether you'll come back safely.

Lao Meng, you have to remember that it doesn't matter if others can't come back, you and Li Qiao must come back.

You are all mercenaries, so we do not owe them morally, because we have already paid for it before we go to war. ”

Meng Yuanzhi looked left and right and saw that there were no outsiders, so he smiled and said: "If we lose our conscience, let's just say it ourselves, don't be heard by outsiders, otherwise, the morale of the army will be weakened, and I will not be able to fight." ”

Tie Xinyuan just smiled when he heard Meng Yuanzhi's words, and didn't care, those mercenaries only cared about their own remuneration, as for how to fight and why they fought, they didn't care.

On the contrary, they believe that such a mode of warfare is more meaningful to them personally than fighting for their country.

After Zhao Wan rested for a long time, she immediately began to meet the ladies of Qingxiang Country non-stop.

Nowadays, there are not many noblewomen in Qingxiang Country, Hou's, Zhuoma, Zema, Yu Chi Zhuozhuo, Yu Chilei's old wife, Tie 300's Hu Ren's wife, plus Mama Zhang and Shui Zhu'er, can only gather a table of people to eat.

Naturally, such a scale could not be achieved, so the skillful women of the Weichi clan, the warriors, and the wives of the samurai leader of the Qingxiang Valley were all within the scope of this meeting.

That's more than 200 people.

The food is just as simple, but the reward is very rich.

Even Tie 300's ignorant wife was given two palace flowers and a string of pearls.

Zhao Wan was just polite and invited these women to come to the retreat in their spare time.

So, these honest Hu women stayed in the house for a whole day, playing leaf cards, fighting grass, throwing pots, putting paper kites, swinging, until the sky was dark, and then reluctantly dropped the leaf cards in their hands and went home.

Before leaving, he swore to tell Zhao Wan that they would be free tomorrow.

When Tie Xinyuan came back, Zhao Wan fell on the brocade couch like a falling shelf, receiving the massage of Shui Zhuer, and Mama Zhang was still nagging on the side, and the scene looked very warm.

Seeing Tie Xinyuan coming in, Zhao Wan hurriedly got up and took a wet towel for him to wipe his face and hands.

Tie Xinyuan wiped it and said with a smile: "I heard that you entertained those official wives today?" ”

Zhao Wan smiled and said: "The man is under your command, and the concubine naturally has to restrain the hearts of these official women, so as not to spoil your big affairs with a pillow wind." ”

Mama Zhang sighed and said: "The king doesn't know, the officials and wives who came today ate more than 100 catties of dry noodles, broke two swings, and the leaves of the fragrant wood outside were all taken down by them to play with grass."

One by one, they are stupid, but they can remember the 100,000 guan, 10,000 guan, suozi and Wenqian in the leaf play.

beat the drum and passed the flowers and drank more than a dozen jars of grape wine, and what made the old man angry the most was that there was a shameless one who actually solved the problem in the peony field sent by Zema!

The biggest headache for the old body is that they are ready to come back tomorrow! ”

Tie Xinyuan looked at Zhao Wan, who was a little embarrassed, and smiled: "It depends on Wanwan's means."

At the beginning of the founding of the country, both famous ministers and brave generals were reckless, and the situation was rude.

And my Hami country is even more created in the wilderness, how can I expect them to be as elegant as the women of Tokyo.

I have heard that it takes three generations to raise a nobleman, and it will take time for these people to know etiquette and understand the world. ”

Zhao Wan chuckled: "The concubine body thinks this is very good, they can eat if they want, drink when they want, they like to get close to the concubine, they will say it clearly, and the concubine body is also free to laugh and drink freely."

Unlike the Hou family, Zhuoma, Zema, and Yu Chi Zhuozhuo, they are cold to the concubines from their bones. ”

"Oh? There are only four people who are cold to you, so to speak, your banquet today is a success. ”

Zhao Wan glanced at her husband and said, "The banquet of the concubine body is naturally successful, and those few people who are cold to the concubine body probably know what is going on."

The Hou family is trying their best to show their identity, and Zhuoma is the same, as for that Zema, and Yu Chi Zhuozhuo, hum, they are just two losers, and the concubine will not care. ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "This is your business, I don't care, I don't believe that the dignified eldest princess of the Great Song Dynasty will not be able to deal with a few women!" “

I couldn't talk to these three women, Tie Xinyuan himself carried a teapot and entered the study, since the officials and officials from the Great Song Dynasty all entered their positions, there were more documents that needed to be reviewed by Tie Xinyuan every day.

Fortunately, Ouyang Xiu helped him resist most of them, even if there were the remaining documents, there was not an hour every day that could not be reviewed.

The process of reviewing documents is also a process for Tie Xinyuan to understand Hami.

The newly established city department has delivered the most documents, which has a lot to do with the increasing number of businessmen who have come to Hami recently.

Nowadays, the entire Western Regions know that trafficking grain to Hami is the most profitable, and Hami is precisely the country with the most purchasing power in the Western Regions.

As a result, the caravans that entered Hami every day were in droves.

They gave the camels a full of grain, and when they arrived in Hami, they sold the grain directly to the city and the city, and settled the accounts with agate or silver coins and gold, and they still did not like the red copper coins very much, and always opportunistically brought a large number of red copper coins, and used the red copper coins to buy cloth and tea in Hami, and then took the gold and silver coins away.

Hami is not allowed to barter, this is mainly related to taxes, if everyone barters, Tie Xinyuan will not be able to collect taxes when they sell, and there is no way to collect taxes when they buy.

Today's document is very interesting, the city of the division consulted Tie Xinyuan, there was a caravan brought two hundred loads of grain, after receiving these two hundred loads of grain, the owner of the camel caravan, wanted to sell the one hundred and fifty camels he had on hand as food to the city of the ship, and also specified that it could only be settled with agate or gold, and he did not accept silver coins and red copper coins.

Tie Xinyuan couldn't help laughing, the Song officials of the city department were still a little rigid, there was nothing wrong with what the owner of the camel team said, oil wheat and barley are grain, and it doesn't make sense that camels are not food.

The agate and gold of Hami come in every day, so what are you waiting for if you don't make a move at this time? They were not to be used to satisfy hunger when they were kept in the storeroom.

Zhao Wan sat quietly embroidering a belly pocket, which seemed to be used by children, although the children of the two of them couldn't even see the shadows, which did not prevent Zhao Wan from embroidering a belly pocket full of motherhood.

Hearing Tie Xinyuan's involuntary laughter, he quietly came behind Tie Xinyuan to see why he was laughing.

"No one wants copper coins?" Zhao Wan couldn't help but exclaim.

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "No one wants it, give us all Hami." ”

When Zhao Wan heard her husband say this, she immediately put the belly pocket in her hand aside, patted the table and said categorically: "If you want a concubine, how much you want!" (To be continued.) )