An Suiyu sighed and said faintly: "Okay, I knew when I came, I'm afraid I can't hide this matter from you, my brother strictly ordered me not to leak this matter, but I'm afraid he didn't expect you to be so tough." Wei Chiqin, I, An Suiyu, am willing to continue to cooperate with you, and now, as you wish, I will tell you about the relationship between our family and Datou Khan, hoping to dispel your guard. ”

Wang Huaqiang's heart moved, and he suddenly spoke: "But if you say it now, your brother will know about it afterwards, will he punish you?" ”

An Suiyu's eyes revealed a sense of perseverance: "Things are urgent, and since I became an adult, the affairs of the An family have always been discussed by our brothers and sisters, and some of my brother's practices, I also have my own opinions, and now it is a matter of cooperation between our two sides, you can rest assured that the affairs of our brothers and sisters will not affect the cooperation between our two families." ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly, he suddenly felt a little unbearable, and didn't want to hurt the girl in front of him: "Miss An, I think you should go back and discuss with Brother Ling, and then let him talk to me, although this matter is important, but I don't want to make your brothers and sisters turn against me for this, let alone see you punished." ”

An Suiyu laughed out loud: "Yu Chiqin, I didn't expect you to be quite good at hurting girls, are you also so sweet to other girls?" ”

Wang Huaqiang shook his head: "Miss An, don't get me wrong, I don't want Brother An to turn against you, not for you, but I don't want a conflict between you, and then Brother An is unwilling to cooperate with us with all his might." With all due respect, I'm not a flamboyant person, but it seems that Miss An thinks I'm a disciple, so I have to clarify, and please don't mention this kind of thing in the future. ”

The smile on An Suiyu's face became stronger: "I'm sorry, hehe, forget it, I'm not joking with you." She put away her smile, stroked the hair on her forehead, and said, "We and Datou Khan are not the kind of subordinate relationship you think, to be precise, they are just using each other.

Datou wants to know the inside story of the Turkic headquarters, and we also need him to protect our business in the Western Regions, after all, now that the Eastern Turks are restricted from trade by the Western Turks and the Sui Dynasty at the same time, it is not easy to do business.

But the more this is the case, the more things that are transported to the eastern steppes become a stearful commodity, although the Sha Bo Luo Khan later reconciled with your Sui Dynasty, but it is only a few months of bazaars in a few cities on the border every year, which is not enough to meet the living needs of millions of people on the steppe, and we also have to transport a large number of daily necessities from the Western Turks, of course, as well as the iron ore that the successive Great Khans crave the most. ”

Hearing this, Wang Huaqiang nodded: "I didn't see a large number of goods in your bazaar, could it be that this is because your Datou Khan has reached some kind of agreement to control the quantity of goods imported into your country?" ”

An Suiyu smiled and shook his head: "I'll tell you the truth, Datou agreed to the conditions for our family to run the business between the two Turks, one is to pay him three times the tax in the Western Turks, and the other is to report to him the internal affairs of the Eastern Turks."

If there are too many goods imported into the East-Turkic headquarters, the price will also fall, and the amount of money we can earn will be greatly reduced, and Datou Khan is actually wishing that we can transport as much goods as possible, except for war horses and iron ore, so that he can make more and more money.

But after weighing it with my brother, we still decided to control the number of goods trafficked over, many of these goods are paid for by the Sui Dynasty every year for the dressing fee given to Kedun, that is, those silk silks, as for other small tribes, we have to use a higher price, and then use cattle and sheep or war horses to exchange for these daily necessities, the Great Khan uses this way to control these small tribes, this is the network of our Turkic steppe, do you understand? ”

Wang Huaqiang finally understood why in the Turkic interior, so many small tribes were powerless to be oppressed and enslaved by the Khan's headquarters, to put it bluntly, it was better to use the economy to control these small tribes, of course, the premise is that the Khan's headquarters must have an absolutely strong military advantage, which he has also witnessed with his own eyes, from this point of view, the peace policy of the Central Plains Dynasty in the past dynasties is really a good way to control these steppe hungry wolves.

But when Wang Huaqiang thought that the An brothers and sisters deliberately reduced the number of commodities imported into the grassland every year in order to make money for themselves, so that a large number of his compatriots could not live a good life, a feeling of disgust arose in his heart, and his face frowned unconsciously.

This expression was captured by An Suiyu at once, and she sighed softly: "Brother Wei Chi, do you blame our brothers and sisters for not thinking about our compatriots and not letting everyone live a good life?" ”

Wang Huaqiang snorted coldly, and did not answer, which can be regarded as an acknowledgement.

An Suiyu shook his head, and the expression in his eyes became dim: "Brother Wei Chi, our An family is a merchant, today we may be in the Turks, tomorrow we may return to the Western Regions, not to mention the grassland, the winner is king, even the Great Khan is constantly changing, who can you let us be loyal to?" ”

Wang Huaqiang shook his head: "Then you can be disloyal even Kedun?" ”

An Suiyu replied without hesitation: "No, to Kedun, we must be loyal to the end, she is a kindness to our brothers and sisters, and we are completely dependent on her today, so under any circumstances, we will not betray Kedun." ”

Wang Huaqiang pursed his lips disdainfully: "Then since you say that you are loyal to Kedun, but let her people not live a good life, is this also called loyalty to her?" ”

An Suiyu smiled slightly: "You person, it's too simple to see the problem, let's tell you the truth, we just want the Turkic people on the grassland to eat half full, wear half warm, not only starve, but also not good, only in this way, can there be the motivation to rob, if everyone is clothed and fed, then it will become a dog fed by your Han family, how to fight?" ”

Wang Huaqiang didn't think about this truth, and he was speechless all of a sudden.

An Suiyu's pretty face showed a hint of smugness, and continued: "And you also know that our Kedun often goes to inspect various small tribes, and when he sees that the people of these tribes are not doing well, he will take out some silk silk to help them and let them eat a few good meals, but they will definitely not take care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of these tribes for many years, and it is simple to live on the grassland, and it is useless to wear silk clothes, mainly to prevent arrow wounds during war."

So we and Kedun acted like this, we can give her an excellent reputation in the grassland, the last time Dulan Khan ascended the throne, the biggest opponent was his younger brother Qin Yushe, at that time in fact, both sides came to Kedun for support, but we felt that Dulan Khan was more worthy of support, so it was Kedun who came forward and bought a large number of tribes, otherwise Qin Yushe would not have been defeated so quickly.

Brother Wei Chi, you have never lived on the grassland, you don't know the hearts of the grassland people, the insatiable greed and the hard life of sleeping in the desert north and south, this is the source of our Turkic warriors' fierce and brave and heavy reputation. We're not going to let there be a famine in the steppes, but we can't feed wolves into dogs either, now you understand? ”

Wang Huaqiang was dumbfounded when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he was still a little unconvinced, and said: "What about the Western Turks, Datou Khan is now in control of the Western Regions, and according to what you say, he is already very rich, but isn't he still very combative?" ”

An Suiyu's mouth hooked, and he snorted softly in his nose: "Datou? He can only be regarded as half a Turk now, and the rich life of the Western Regions countries has made him corrupt and degenerate, and the last time he attacked Sui with the Shabalu Khan, it was an excellent opportunity, but he went to the border to make a small profit and then retreated, causing the Shabalui Khan to fail.

The current Datou Khan and his Western Turks have even abandoned nomadism in the Western Regions and settled in the Western Regions, and their cavalry has degraded so badly that they can no longer be compared with the warriors of our Turkic steppes.

Although the Western Turks seem to be quite powerful, they only rely on money to hire and buy those servant tribes, in the past, he bought Apo Khan to take the lead, but now Apo is finished, and he has no elite soldiers under him, and he can't beat Dulan Khan head-on, so he can only keep using this kind of trick. ”

Wang Huaqiang's heart moved, and he asked: "Miss An, did you also contribute to the fact that Mohe Khan fought with the Western Turks and died in the middle of the arrow?" ”