"Young Master Yun, please sit down and have a drink, and we will talk about business slowly."

In such an environment and such a person to eat and drink, Yun Mo still can't do it:

"Thank you Lord Alma for your hospitality, Yun has just eaten, let's talk about business!"

"Okay, let's talk about business, how much can Young Master Yun eat?"

"I only need Han slaves, where do you have many?"

"As long as the Han slaves! I have two thousand one hundred and twenty male slaves and one hundred and forty-five female Chinese slaves, all of whom are young and strong slaves. ”

"Master Alma, the Han slaves are in your hands, the young are real, the old ones are tired to death, and it is certain that they are emaciated."

"Don't talk about this, don't talk about this, Young Master Yun plans to exchange green salt for these Han slaves?"

"Five catties of green salt for every slave, I want both men and women."

"No, the price is too low, fifteen catties of green salt each."

Harnick began to talk:

"Master Alma, didn't you just tell me that ten catties of green salt is a slave? Why did you change your mind so quickly? ”

Alma glared at Harnik and said:

"Can you be the Lord, boy? I'm just talking to you. ”

Yun Mo replied calmly:

"Then exchange it for ten catties of green salt for a slave! The place of delivery is outside the grape ditch.

I reminded Master Alma, in Qingtang, a 500-pound yak only needs five catties of green salt, I think you know, ten catties of green salt for a cheap Han slave, you can make a lot of money, and you can only do business in moderation. ”

Yun Mo really can't stand the smell here, so it's better to end the negotiations as soon as possible or leave as soon as possible, green salt is a valuable commodity to others, and for Yun Mo, it is something that can be easily obtained.

And the population, especially the Han people, is too important to Yun Mo, there are people who have everything, but now there are not many Han people in the Western Regions.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were more than one million Han people in the Western Regions, and after more than 100 slaughters and enslavements, it would be good if the Han people in the Western Regions could survive one out of ten.

And if Yun Mo wants to develop, he must have a large number of Han people, fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty has taken the Hehuang region for more than ten years, and the Great Song Dynasty has been adjacent to the land of Gaochang in Hui, Yun Mo wants Han people in the future, and he can also find a way from the Hehuang area.

Alma has been operating coal mines for more than 20 years, and in the first ten years, the horse thieves in Gaochang were not very rampant, and his coal could be sold smoothly, but in recent years, there have been more and more horse thieves, and the Hui government has been unable to suppress the thieves, so that there are fewer and fewer businessmen who come to Gaochang to buy coal.

This business is naturally getting worse and worse, and now Alma sells enough coal every month to feed those slaves, if the slaves are starved to death, then Alma's losses will be even greater, and now these slaves can be exchanged for valuable green salt, so what is there to hesitate about in this transaction!

"Young Master Yun is a refreshing person, I, Alma, admire a refreshing person the most, let's just say it, five days later, I will send the slave outside the grape ditch, but I need Young Master Yun to give some deposit first."

Given a deposit? Yun Mo didn't understand the dead fat man in front of him, what if he asked for a deposit and didn't send a slave? You can't give him a deposit.

"Master Alma, you are a powerful person in the local area, and my tribe is in Grape Gully, can I still run away."

Yun Mo meant not to give, Alma was in a hurry to sell the slaves who might starve to death at any time, and he didn't dwell with Yun Mo on this issue:

"Then I'm going to take a look at your green salt first?"

"There's no problem with that, I can give you ten catties of green salt."

Yun Mo wanted to buy slaves, and Alma wanted to sell those slaves who were about to starve to death as soon as possible, so this time the business went very smoothly, and Alma immediately agreed to the deal after checking the green salt that Yun Mo gave him.

The last time Yun Mo came to Jiaohe City, he only took fifty ragged female soldiers, but he was peeped at and followed by several horse thieves, this time Yun Mo took more than a hundred soldiers in iron armor, and the eyeliner of those horse thieves automatically filtered Yun Mo and them.

The news of the horse thief is very well-informed, and no matter what is going on within a hundred miles, it can't escape the ears of the horse thief. The battle in Grape Gully has spread among the horse thieves, and the horse thieves who don't have any strength really don't dare to fight Yun Mo's idea.

On the way back, there was no more horse thief's eyeliner falling behind, and more than 10,000 catties of grain and some other materials were transported back to Qingxiang City without any problems.

Of course, there is only an eleven-meter-high earthen wall in Qingxiang City, and the houses in the city are all adobe houses, and the population is only a few hundred people. It's not so much a city as a village.

Food is the best thing to stabilize people's hearts, there is food in their hands, there is no panic in their hearts, when the hundreds of people in Qingxiang City saw dozens of truckloads of food and materials transported back, everyone showed a happy smile.

Now the output of green salt in Qingxiang City is not low, there are 10,000 catties per month, how much grain does this have to be exchanged! Everyone is full of hope for the future life.

Chen Cang shouted at the welcoming crowd:

"Everyone, go to the cave like food."

Hundreds of people immediately came up to carry the grain with joy, and there was no need for anyone to supervise it, and all of them took part in the labor willingly.

Zhang Ying was as usual, when Yun Mo came back, she was always the first to run in front of Yun Mo, and then said shyly:

"Good work."

This greeting was enough for Yun Mo, because his parents were like this, and they didn't have any sweet words to each other, but they still didn't support each other with respect for a lifetime.

Sweet words can only be perfunctory for a while, and the beloved can grow old together.

……

In June in the Western Regions, the temperature is very high, and if people want to participate in labor, they can only do so in a shady place, otherwise, they will soon suffer from heat stroke.

But this kind of weather is also a good time to make adobe and burn bricks, and the earthen wall of Qingxiang City is okay to deal with small-scale attacks, and if the enemy has siege equipment, then it is not a problem to go to the earthen wall.

At this time, Yun Mo also had enough manpower to burn the bricks, because the clearing and cultivation had been completed, and only a few manpower was needed to take care of the crops that were growing well.

This place to take soil to make adobe bricks is exquisite, hasn't Yun Mo always wanted to build a pool in the Qingxiang Valley? Crafting adobe and digging pools can be done together.

Yun Mo chose the location of making adobe bricks on both sides of the Qingxiang River, and the production of adobe bricks was also set in several fixed locations, and after the adobe was completed, several huge soil pits would be left, which was naturally a pool, which was a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

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(For more than 100 years in the Northern Song Dynasty, the only lost territory recovered was the Hehuang region, this war was the opening of the Hehuang area, during the Xining period of the Northern Song Dynasty, with the support of the prime minister Wang Anshi, presided over by Wang Shao, the Song Dynasty successively recovered the battle of Hehuang Liuzhou.)

However, the military operations of the Northern Song Dynasty in the Hehuang region cost the Northern Song Dynasty a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources, and the local Tibetan rebellion made the Northern Song Dynasty very passive and forced to invest more troops to maintain its rule. This not only had a profound impact on the Hehuang region, but also had a greater impact on the Northern Song court, and was also one of the reasons for the later demise of the Northern Song Dynasty. ）