Chapter 29: An Unsuccessful Conspiracy
As long as you master the principle of three points and one line, you can train casually for a few days, and it is not a big problem to shoot a person from dozens of meters away, of course, this is where Yun Mo's confidence lies.
The towering earthen wall gave everyone comfort in their hearts, and they were no longer as panicked as the previous time they went up to the earthen wall.
After everyone had stumbled to the earthen wall and was ready for battle, a contingent of more than 2,000 slaves staggered to the earthen wall.
More than 2,000 people came from outside, and most of them were ragged Han slaves from the outside, but who dared to guarantee that they were not horse thieves pretending, Yun Mo had seen too many scams in later generations.
Now that my strength is not enough, it is better to be careful everywhere. Yun Mo stood at the head of the city and shouted loudly to the city:
"Master Alma is here."
The group below was silent for a while, and Alma, under the cover of several shield men, rode to two hundred meters in front of the earthen wall.
The richer and more powerful the person, the more afraid of death, this Alma looked at the heavily armed soldiers on the earthen wall, and he didn't believe Yun Mo either!
"Young Master Yun, I'm Alma, I brought all the more than 2,000 Han slaves you need, now let's start trading!"
"Master Alma, you are a trustworthy businessman, after the transaction is completed, I will give you five stones of green salt, and in the future, the business of our Qingxiang City will also be open to you."
"Thank you Yun Shao, it's just that how to trade now, you always have to come up with a charter that is acceptable to both parties!"
Alma was also afraid that Yun Mo would not be trustworthy, if he put all the two thousand slaves into this fragrant city at one time, if Yun Mo turned his face and refused to admit it, then Alma would not lose all his money, so Alma asked Yun Mo to say a mutually acceptable exchange method.
"So be it! Fifty people for each transaction, after we see whether they are Han Chinese, they will hand over salt and hand over the other. ”
"Verify, how?"
"That's easy! I would send twenty people out, and they would talk to the fifty slaves who were exchanged, in Chinese, and then see if their front teeth were crescent-shaped. ”
(The biggest characteristic of the Han people is that they have crescent-shaped front teeth, like a shovel, and if you don't believe it, you can touch your front teeth and see it immediately.) )
"That's it! …… Let's do it! ”
The leader of the horse thieves who pressed the formation behind him was full of stars, spit on the sand with a mouthful of thick phlegm, and then quietly cursed:
"This kid has a lot of fucking crooked intestines, you can think of this method."
The plan that had been cursed by Man Tianxing who had planned to send people into Qingxiang City could not be carried out, so he had to ask a few horse thieves to inform those who had infiltrated the slaves to quietly withdraw.
After the two sides negotiated, Yun Mo asked the drawbridge to be lowered, and then two wooden ladders were lowered from the city wall, one for the slaves entering the city, and the other for the people who carried the green salt.
Open the city gate to exchange green salt? That's stupid! There were hundreds of cavalry eyeing the outside, how could Yun Mo go to open the city gate, and putting two wooden ladders down was the safest way.
If the horse thief cavalry outside wants to attack, and their war horses have not yet run to the city gate, Yun Mo can let people take away the wooden ladder, and then let those horse thieves who can't advance or retreat accept the baptism of arrow rain!
Man Tianxing, a man who has been a horse thief for decades, has nothing to say at all, and he didn't think about waiting for the city gate to open and take the opportunity to kill him.
Why did Man Tianxing want to venture into Shajing Qingxiang City, because he found that there were many women on the earthen wall, which showed that there were not many people in Qingxiang City, and the people on this earthen wall might be all the people in Qingxiang City.
But people don't open the city gate at all, the sky is full of stars, and the cavalry without any siege equipment goes to attack the city, that is to send to death, Man Tianxing can do horse thieves for decades without dying, he is definitely not stupid.
Man Tianxing could only watch as batches of Han Chinese slaves entered Qingxiang City from the wooden ladder, and then bags of green salt were transported from the wooden ladder to a place two hundred meters outside the city, and then carried into the car by Alma's guards.
The people sent by Qingxiang City were strictly verified, and as long as there was one unqualified Chinese and front teeth, they were immediately driven to the side to stand, even if they were strong.
Even Alma didn't understand this, he sent an escort to the city to ask why this was happening, and Yun Mo's answer was also direct:
"The slaves are all thin and weak, and the strong are not slaves, but have another purpose."
After all, the Western Regions have been in the fall for decades, and there are definitely Han people who have taken refuge in horse thieves and other alien races, this is absolute, these people will definitely be able to eat and clothe themselves, how can they be thin and weak.
Traitor, Yun Mo definitely doesn't want it, no matter if he has any ulterior motives, don't do it, Yun Mo didn't buy it back and then execute them, it's already merciful.
In the end, more than 100 people were eliminated, and Yun Mo accepted a total of 2,038 Han slaves, including more than 1,800 men, more than 150 women, and 780 children.
Alma's Han slaves were coal miners, and that must have been the most male, and these women were just helping with the cooking and laundry, and it was a miracle that these children survived.
For more than an hour, the people and goods were cleared, Alma left with dozens of carts of green salt satisfied, and the stars could only leave with him, and the task of shooting the sky to find out the news could not be completed for the time being, and it seemed that he could only think of other ways.
Chen Cang flattered him flatteringly:
"Chief, you've done this beautifully."
"In this place in the Western Regions, we can't be too careful, we are weak now, and one negligence will lead to the extinction of the life and death clan."
"My subordinates understand, so what should we do next, these are more than 2,000 mouths waiting to eat."
"I will first select a thousand people to join the army, and the rest will be handed over to the six parts!"
"Chief, we only have more than 2,000 people in total, and there are more than 1,200 off-duty soldiers, isn't this ratio too high, I'm afraid we can't afford to raise so many troops!"
Yun Mo smiled, and then said indifferently:
"Don't worry, don't we have green salt? As long as we have manpower, we can have as many as we want, and with enough troops can we ensure that our green salt can be sold farther, and with enough troops can we ensure our wealth. ”
Thinking about it, Yun Mo and their current trading location is Jiaohe, and the green salt in Jiaohe City can't be sold at a high price, if the green salt business can be done in Qingtang, Xixia, and Da Song, then the price will be many times higher.
For example, in Qingtang, a yak of several hundred catties only needs a few catties of green salt, and there is no market price, for hundreds of years, merchants go to Qingtang wherever they go, they are all traded like this, and the Tubo people in Qingtang have recognized this price from the bottom of their hearts.
In ancient times, the risk was extremely high, and they could throw away their lives anytime and anywhere, especially in places where horse thieves and bandits were rampant, and even more so, the price of necessities like salt was absolutely sky-high, which was the price determined by countless merchants with their lives.
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