That's it, we're almost there. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info', said a middle-aged man with a dark face and a deep and powerful voice. He pointed ahead, an undulating, verdant grassland, where the target was. It's just that Li Chengyu tried his best to see anything, but he still didn't see anything.

'Haha, it's still far away, but it's still here after a while. Seeing Li Chengyu's actions, Xing Lao Liu understood what he was doing, and he did the same when he followed his father on this route for the first time.

'Someone's got it. At this time, Li Chengyu saw something, and after a while, a few horses galloped quickly, "Who are you?" Far away, a few riders stopped, and only one rider stepped forward to ask, Li Chengyu didn't understand, but guessed he asked like this.

'On the cheek Tibetan brothers, it is me, the sixth, and the Han Xing sixth. When he saw the person coming, the middle-aged man who had just spoken, asked everyone to stop, and drove his horse forward in small steps, like a greeting to someone who came. Li Chengyu didn't understand these words. The person who came got the name was told to him by the guide just now, Xing Lao Liu was the guide's real name, Li Chengyu half guessed and half meng, guessing that he was talking about this.

Next, he couldn't guess it, anyway, he was relieved to see that his guide, Xing Lao Liu, and this person, who was said to be the son of the leader of a small tribe in the vicinity, had a good conversation. After a while, Xing Lao Liu came back and shouted at the caravan to go on the road together.

"It's nice to have a nice view here, but it's a little hard to breathe." Along the way, there is such a scene, the mountains and hills are undulating, a grassland, and you can see cattle and sheep grazing in it. However, probably because it is close to winter, the grassland looks a little bleak. They have been walking in this bad environment for many days. But Li Chengyu still has such a good vision.

'Nice view. Xing Lao Liu wanted to laugh, but remembered that he was a guide hired by someone, so he couldn't help it, and only said, "You say this, people live here, and you won't agree with it." ’

'Yes. After Li Chengyu listened, he nodded in agreement, and after walking for a while, it seemed that he could finally see the tents where the herdsmen lived. After a while, as if to go to the edge of the sky, the scenery did not change, the only thing that changed was that the tent looked a little bigger.

A little closer, you can see that this is a continuous group of tents, Li Chengyu visually estimated, there are about hundreds, one can accommodate five or six people, there are probably thousands of people.

Approaching the tent area, more people came out to inquire, and then someone rode back to inform. Just as they were waiting for them to get closer, an old man with a few middle-aged people came out to greet them.

'Why, that's all?' I thought there were about a thousand people living here. Li Chengyu asked in a low voice, "It's daytime, people have to graze cattle and sheep, and winter is coming, and they have to collect forage and give cattle and sheep winter, which is very busy." Xing Lao Liu replied a little disdainfully, and pointed to various places, "That should be the place where they deal with those cattle and sheep." Some must be slaughtered now, otherwise they will freeze to death and starve to death in winter. ’

As they spoke, they moved further away from the tent area, and Xing Lao Liu stepped forward first, "On Zang Rejiebao, you are not dead yet, I am really happy to have built you." Li Chengyu understood this, not guessed. Because Xing Lao Liu speaks Chinese.

However, at this moment, how Li Chengyu wished he hadn't understood. How can someone curse the other party as soon as they meet, and they are not dead. He pressed the handle of the knife on his waist, and secretly complained in his heart, at this time, several people on the opposite side also held down the handle of the knife, as if they were about to make a move.

'Xing Liuzhi, I just heard before that you were chased and killed for thousands of miles because you owed a lot of gambling debts, and now the money has been paid off? Then the old man sneered at each other, speaking in Chinese, and very slippery.

This Xing Lao Liu is a person who often runs the Tang Fan route. In the past, there was a caravan that ran the Tubo line, but it was a pity that because he was so good at gambling, he owed a lot of debts and even bet the caravan out.

Later, he had to work as a guide for others, but he still did not change his mind and continued to gamble. In the end, his wife reconciled with him, he swore not to gamble several times, but he broke the ring again and again, and even cut off a few of his fingers, or continued to gamble, and in the end, he lost his job and didn't know where to go.

'Ha, don't bet, really don't bet. Two fingers less is enough. Xing Lao Liu waved his hand that was missing a little finger, six fingers, because he was six, and stomped one finger after another, some people said that sooner or later he would stomp two more and follow it, so someone called him Xing Liuzhi, 'Fortunately, I'm not the boss.' ’。 At the end of the sentence, Xing Laoliu laughed at himself.

'I've got some good stuff for you today.' Then, speaking of business, Xing Lao Liu is no longer ha, "My sixth man is a person, you are trustworthy, come and see the goods." After that, he turned around, saw Li Chengyu's nervous appearance, and laughed, "What to do, I know Jiebao very well, I was just joking, what are you nervous about." ’

But I see that they are about to draw their swords. Li Chengyu saw that it seemed to be fine, and his hand slowly left the hilt.

Xing Lao Liu turned his head to look, and saw several people following the old man, all of whom looked at them with unkind faces, or more correctly, looked at Li Chengyu, patted Li Chengyu on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Are you going to draw the knife first, they won't know that Jie Bao and I are joking." ’

At this time, Zang Re came up, Xing Lao Liu explained a few words to her, and then went to see the goods on his behalf, at this time Li Chengyu became active again, knowing that the old man could speak Chinese, so he began to sell.

This is Longxi, to which Tubo belongs. Li Chengyu came to this place with a caravan today, just to do business. In this caravan, there are only a few people who came with Li Chengyu. The others are all improvised patchwork, all of them are digging up people in this house and looking for people in that house. A lot of people don't know each other well.

However, it doesn't matter, whether it is the groom or the driver of the carriage, they are all carefully selected, tight-mouthed, and practical people, so you don't have to worry about whether they are reliable or not.

And this guide, the name is known to everyone. He was an exception, a native of Longxi, but he fled to Chang'an and was photographed to be the guide of this caravan.

Li Chengyu asked them if they liked Tang Qian, but it was still new money. However, they were rejected, because they had suffered losses from Tang Qian before, and their ancestors trained them to barter.

'Fifty pieces of silk, one horse. The old man made a price, they didn't like the money Li Chengyu brought, but they liked the wine he brought. In the past, they traded, either silk or salt, or tea. Now there's more wine.

They also brew their own barley wine, but the taste is not as strong as Li Chengyu's, and when they eat it, it is like a fire, which can just help them overcome the cold of winter.

'Just kidding, fifty silks. Li Chengyu jumped up, "Do you want to help me lead the horse to Datang?" ’

'Fifty pieces of silk, that's how we used to trade. ''That's when you sent the horses over, and I've come all the way here now.'' Fifty pieces of silk, rush back, do you want to sell it. ’

Fifty pieces of silk, this is the price of the Tang Dynasty and the Uighur Yima, when the Anshi Rebellion was quelled, the Uighurs actually helped the Tang Dynasty a lot. Forty pieces of silk, partly for mediocrity, partly for the real need of horses. Nowadays, it has also become the standard for many nomads and Datang Yima.

But these fifty pieces of silk are really slaughtering, and the standard has to be bullied. Fifty pieces of silk, this is the price of the Uighurs to drive the horses to the Tang Dynasty, they have now arrived in Tibet, and if you return this price, you will slaughter people.

And look at the cloth, how dense it is, feel the touch, look at the luster. Li Chengyu showed them how good it is to bring this silk today. A few people touched it and thought it was pretty good. Seeing that they were all satisfied, Li Chengyu began to work hard to show it.

In general, there were many problems in maintaining the silk horse trade in Datang. The Tang said that the horses brought by the Uighurs were too old and sick to use, and that they were expensive. Originally, it was forty pieces of silk and a horse. In the Yuanhe period, it rose to Wu Shi Yi silk horse.

However, this is what the Tang people have to say. After Li Chen came to Datang, he knew that the reason why this kind of Yima could still be maintained. In fact, the Uighurs did not ask for a price, and forty pieces of silk were the price they paid to buy horses with the Turks during the Kaiyuan period. In the Yuanhe period, the price was considered to have risen.

The problem is that the Tang Dynasty has a national strength, and it was very easy to pay a price in the Kaiyuan period, and it was not traded so much at that time, about 3,000 to 4,000 horses a year. But now... Therefore, Datang often uses various means to steal catties and reduce two. What sparsely woven stubs, silk cobwebs, these means to mix.

However, in Li Chen's view, these records are inevitably exaggerated. When the old, weak, sick and disabled are concerned, they may have traveled a long way and the horses were tired. The second is that the water and soil are not adapted. Horses are not as good as the products produced in the factory, and the factory produces the same product, and there is a risk of cutting corners.

Horses: How do you cut corners? Chop off a horse's leg on your own way? This horse is not to buy one or two, the herd of horses has to be herd, and this horse seller is also indispensable. Thousands or tens of thousands of horses at a time, are they too sick to use? It's not easy.

Moreover, the Tang people are too, saying that there are various ways to steal catties and lose two, which is actually limited. During the Yuanhe period, an edict was also issued to prohibit this kind of behavior.

Because both sides have advantages, the real disadvantages are actually bearable, sometimes the silk is not enough, Datang will make up for it with gold and silver, otherwise it will not last for more than 80 years. A few years ago, the Uighurs were destroyed and stopped.

'Young man, now that you're here, don't go any further. The two sides negotiated the price of the transaction, and obtained a mutually acceptable amount of exchange, the old man said suddenly.

'What do you mean?' Li Chengyu paused, suddenly a little nervous, did the other party want to do them? I said, "Since you're here, don't go." The old man repeated it again, and this time, everyone heard it clearly, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the conflict seemed to be on the verge of breaking out. (To be continued.) )