Wang Shichong's eyes flashed: "There is no way to be endless, on the surface, we lost a game, but if Goguryeo joins, it may be able to reverse the unfavorable situation!" And that's why I've brought you two here today! ”

Yizhi Wende stroked his beard, just now he had been quietly listening to the conversation between the two, only occasionally interjecting a few words, but with his wisdom, he had already heard eight or nine points about these things, and he also guessed the purpose of Wang Shichong who had been secretly keeping in touch with the Turks for many years, he smiled slightly, and said: "Wang Shilang, you have maintained such a close relationship with your Turkic friends for so many years, and even if the Western Turks provided them with pig iron, it was just to make money?" ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "Minister Yizhi, I am a businessman, and later I also became an official in the court, but I have no family background, and I am not a member of the Guanlong Group, so from the Supreme to those big families, there are too many people who are jealous of my money and jealous of my official position, if you don't find a few back roads for yourself, I don't know how I will die one day." Even if you are the Minister of the Ulchi State, as an eastern adult, it is impossible for you to be without your own core clan and armament. ”

Eulzhi Wende laughed: "This is natural, everyone is not a character who stretches his neck and cuts people, but there is still a bottom line in our internal struggle in Goguryeo, that is, we must not damage the interests of the country and let foreign enemies take advantage." ”

Wang Shichong said lightly: "This is natural, I hope that the Great Sui and the Turks, as well as you Goguryeo, can always maintain good relations, so that the country is stable, business can be stable, and I can make more money." This hasn't changed much from start to finish. ”

Yizhi Wende glanced at Gao Baoyi. said: "You Mobei Turks. It doesn't border our Goguryeo. If you want to do business, I'm afraid that you can't go to Monan, but you have to cross the area inhabited by the Beji people in the north of Goguryeo, go out from the Daxianbei Mountain, and cross the ** grassland. ”

Gao Baoyi nodded: "Yes, but the area around Daxianbei Mountain is not the territory of our Mobei Turks, but the territory of the current Tonglifu Special Service, and now the Turkic royal court in Monan is in the Yinshan area." The ** grassland in the east was handed over to the Liver's special service, and if we want to get in touch, we are afraid that we will have to go through the Liver's special service. ”

Wang Shichong's brows furrowed slightly: "So, the two of you can't be directly connected?" ”

Eulzhi Wende nodded: "There is another way, which is to continue north from my Goguryeo, enter the territory of the Beji people, and then turn northwest, which can be walked for two thousand miles and get in touch with the Mobei Turks." It's just that Nabeji is an arrogant and untamed barbarian, completely in an uncivilized state. Barbaric and cruel, ignorant of etiquette and law, our Goguryeo can't suppress them at all, every time we want to recruit them to fight, we have to lure them through guò heavy profits, in contrast, it is safer to take the territory of the Turkic Lifu special service. ”

Wang Shichong recalled the record of the Beji people in his mind, Beji was the Sushen people who had come to the Central Plains to pay tribute during the Zhou Dynasty, that is, the ancestors of the Manchu people in later generations, called Yilou in the Han Dynasty, and changed its name to Beji in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

According to the records of these historical materials from the historical records to the Hanshu and then to the Northern History, the Beji people live in the area of the Daxing'an Mountains in the Heilongjiang River Basin, in the vast forest, sea and snow fields, divided into dozens of tribes, with a total population of about 200,000 people, each tribe has only a few hundred people, and the more are only one or two thousand people, making a living from fishing and hunting, compared to those Turkic people who lack pig iron in the grassland next door and can only use bones as arrowheads, their arrows are more backward, and many of them are actually made of stones, which obviously have not completely evolved from the Stone Age.

However, although the weapons are backward, but the experience of fighting wild beasts in the deep mountains and old forests for many years, and being with tigers, wolves and black bears every day, has made these Beji people have a good body, and they eat Ma Ma fragrant, even if they use stone arrowheads, these Beji people still commonly use the kind of thick wood, several strands of animal tendons are mixed together to make a powerful bow, the arrows are quenched with venom, as long as they shoot these beasts, often the middle is killed immediately.

Moreover, most of these Begi people are excellent archers, and the arrows they shoot can accurately hit the eyes and hearts of wild beasts, and even if they don't use bows and arrows, relying on rough wooden sticks and stone knives and stone axes, the strong Begi people can often directly fight these tigers and leopards hand-to-hand, and the harshest living conditions create the strongest physique, so in terms of aggressiveness and fierceness, even if the brave and warlike Turks mention these Begi people, they often smell it. The Jurchen in later generations (the name of the Beji people after the Song Dynasty) cannot be full of 10,000 soldiers, and if there are 10,000, the world is invincible, which is not just a lie.

Wang Shichong was contemplating the legends of these Beji people, but heard Gao Baoyi laugh and said: "Beji people, these stinky things, after two thousand miles from their territory, I am afraid that those pig iron ore will have a smell of pig." Hahahaha. ”

Yizhi Wende couldn't help laughing, and laughed, Wang Shichong was a little strange, and asked, "What, do these Beji people stink?" ”

Yizhi Wende smiled and nodded: "Yes, in the deep mountains and old forests, the Beji people do not have houses, they all live in the holes, those fields are dug very deep, sometimes they can reach a distance of ten zhang underground, and they have to set up ladders to go down to the bottom, and in winter, the caves are very cold, and the Beji people can't keep out the cold, so they will smear thick lard on their bodies and put on animal skins to survive." ”

Wang Shichong had also heard of the Manchus being called wild boar skin in later generations, but he never knew the source, and after hearing it, he was surprised: "Lard? Will they also raise pigs? ”

Ezhi Wende nodded: "Yes, the Beji people learned to domesticate livestock, and raised domestic pigs after hunting wild boars, after all, hunting is not able to obtain food continuously, especially in winter, animals have to hibernate, so there must be some domestic animals to survive the cold winter, the meat eaten by the Beji people in winter and the lard smeared on their bodies are all from the domestic pigs they raise, and these Beji people wash their faces and brush their teeth every day, not with water, but with urine, and pooping and peeing is not in the toilet, but in the middle of the hole in the ground to solve the problem, So it's very simple to find these Beji people, where it stinks, a smell of feces and urine, then Bacheng is their lair. ”

Wang Shichong almost vomited when he heard this, and frowned: "Did their brains get into the water, and they actually washed their faces and hands with urine?" (To be continued......)