Chapter 490: Another Caravan
Under the sun, a green grassland is like a large grass carpet, which stretches to the horizon. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info can not see the end at a glance, the edge seems to border the sky, this beautiful grassland, like the sea, like the sky, scattered tents, like islands in the sea, or clouds in the sky. For those who have never been to the grassland, it is a great treat, and it is as beautiful as a painting.
But the painting is alive, and when the breeze blows, I see the picture move, and my nose smells like grass. As far as the eye could see, the grass was low, revealing the fat cattle and sheep that were grazing inside, and they were trying to fatten up to survive the cold winter. There can be occasional roars in the sky, and a goshawk bursts out of the clouds, hovering the sky, as if patrolling its own territory.
Standing on the hill and letting the mind be infinitely empty, you can feel that the mind is infinitely comfortable. You will feel that in this vast world, everything is not important, and the trivial things between people are like passing clouds and are not worth mentioning.
It's just that I've never seen a person, so I'm so nervous. Yun Deshi has no intention of appreciating these at all, for him who grew up on the grassland, this is an ordinary scenery, and if he has time to enjoy these, it is better to think about it, this winter, will there be a blizzard, and how many cattle and sheep can live until the beginning of spring.
It is better to sharpen your sword and prepare your horses, the grassland is never tolerant, especially at this time, it is the season when many horse bandits are infested, everyone has to spend the winter, not only cattle and sheep, but also people, so he must always be vigilant, pay attention to those who may get horse bandits, or cattle and sheep thieves.
'That's?' Yun Deshi was still yawning, this kind of watchful thing is the most testing people, the grassland of Pingchuan is the same after a long time, it is easy to feel tired, he beat his spirit, he was about to hit the horse and turn around twice, and suddenly found something, he put his hand on the pergola and looked carefully.
He saw a few small black dots on the horizon in front of him, and he looked at them carefully, and after looking at them for a while, he said to his companion next to him, 'Hagen, there are people in front of you, I'll go and see.' His companion looked forward listlessly, "Is there a problem, is it a horse bandit?" ’
Probably not, too slow. ''Got a car?'' Could it be that it is a migratory pasture, I don't know that this is our pasture? ''It should be a caravan, if it's a tribe, it's too small. After watching for a while, the black dot was getting closer and closer from here, and Yun Deshi was sure that this was a caravan. Don't speak at the moment, and go forward to confirm immediately.
Sure enough, it was a caravan, and the closer he got to see it, the more clearly he could see a lot of four-wheeled carts, full of goods, each of which was pulled by two large horses, and he had to walk, and before he could get closer, someone ran over.
'Is it Brother Deyun Deshi of the Die-Thorn Division?' Seeing that he was the only one, like the three people who came here, one stayed in the distance, and the two people leaned over, and the person who was the first to have a round face with anger, Yun Deshi recognized the person who came, it was an old acquaintance, "Haha, Lao Guo, don't worry, if you come, there is a big bowl of mare's milk wine, and I will greet you well." ’
It's time to greet me, I've brought something good with me today. Lao Guo hugged Yun Deshi affectionately, and then took out a pot secretly, Yun Deshi took it, pulled the stopper at once, and a strong aroma of wine came to his nose, Yun Deshi trembled, just smelling the wine, it was a good wine, he couldn't wait to pour it down, and then his face turned red, he held his breath, didn't squirt out the wine, and swallowed the wine one by one.
'Good wine, Lao Guo, you really brought good things. Although he was almost choked, Yun Deshi was greatly admired, and after drinking this wine, the previous wine was tasteless.
At that moment, he put away the wine jug so much, and under the recommendation of Lao Guo, he met the leader of the caravan, a very young Han man, with a smiling face, giving people a sense of intimacy, giving people a feeling of laughing before the rain, as if the next moment, he said any joke, it was not unexpected.
Soon, he led the caravan, and when he arrived at the tribe's camp, he set up a place for the caravan to camp, and saw more than a dozen carts, and soon surrounded a camp, and then everyone was busy.
Yun Deshi did not stay long, and when he saw that they had settled down, he went to tell the patriarch and went back to guard the cattle and sheep.
'These Khitans, their hair is really ugly. The caravan was so busy camping that Li Chengyu was complaining about the tribal man's hair, everyone was shaved, which was really ugly.
It's said to be shaved, but it's not quite right, it's mainly shaved in the middle, leaving only the sides of the ears and temples. But no matter how much you stay, ugly is ugly.
'Ha, it's ugly, when I first came, I was also very sick to my stomach, and I'm used to it after half a year. Li Chengyu was next to him, always smiling at the young man.
Li Chengyu came to the grassland naturally to do his old job, using the caravan as a cover to map and map. This smiling young man is the representative of the caravan, and he is presiding over the operation of the caravan to maintain the operation of the surface. Both of them are old acquaintances, so they naturally speak casually.
'What is the use of your wool?' I heard that you have to collect even worthless wool, and see that those herdsmen are happy, are you here to be a rich boy on the grassland? The two jumped and looked at the grassland, chatting, Li Chengyu asked a question that had nothing to do with him, why did he collect wool?
These wool are useless at all, these herdsmen, are casually disposed of, they bring local felt, or coarse to collect, with a stick flattened, as a cloak, I have not heard of anyone said to buy, now at first glance with a bunch of delicate goods caravan, need to buy a large number of purchases, the future will buy more, everyone flocks to it, the door of the caravan, crowded with wool herdsmen, I am afraid that it will be late, the caravan will not be accepted.
Everywhere they passed, they had to collect a lot of wool, and the dozens of horses they brought with them were full of wool, and the carts were stuffed with a lot, and wherever there was space, they were stuffed with it. If it weren't for the restrictions, if it wasn't for the fact that they didn't want it back then, I'm afraid that two or three tribes would have gotten wool and they would have been able to fill them up.
Of course it works, but it's not something like you who spends all day looking at people's privacy. The smiling young man spit out Li Chengyu before explaining, "Wool can also be used for spinning, but not many people have tried it, and most of them use cashmere." But we've come to the conclusion that reliable technology, which is considered waste wool, will become gold in the future. ’
What's more, in this grassland, on these two trade routes, basically the business opportunities are monopolized by those border generals, and we can't attract their attention, and it is inconvenient to rob them of business, so we can only find another way." ’
There are seven roads in Datang, and three to the northern grassland. One is that they can go, Yingzhou into Andong Road. The other is the Xiazhou Saiwai Pass to Datong Yunzhong Road, and the last one is the Uighur Road from the surrendered city.
There are a lot of grassland caravans, and there are also many grassland peoples who go to the Datang border to trade, and the Tang Dynasty has several checkpoints, as a place for mutual markets, basically, they are all controlled by border generals, like An Lushan, he holds a few passes, which become his use for raising troops.
'It's really depressing, this Tang Dynasty territory is full of these feudal towns. Li Chengyu sulked, these feudal towns are rooted in the local area, and they are inextricably linked to many local forces, and they can't be easily moved, in order not to arouse the vigilance of the feudal towns, they don't dare to make a big splash. There's no way, the only thing to do intelligence is to pay attention to secrecy, especially when their opponents may all be these feudal towns.
Then, the two of them stopped talking, quietly admiring the sunset on the prairie, the golden sunset, slowly approaching the horizon, a herd of cattle and sheep was driven back by the shepherds, and the shepherdess sang gracefully, greeting relatives and friends.
And the cattle and sheep are not to be outdone, the sound is also full of heaven and earth, people are greeting each other, calling friends, cattle and sheep are also, one after another to the sound, adding background music to the land, the song is called peaceful.
However, more than a dozen horsemen and horses galloped in the distance, destroying the atmosphere, although it did not cause any damage, but it also interrupted the interest of the two, so that the two had no intention of appreciating it anymore.
'There seem to be a lot of Han Chinese among those people just now? A trace of doubt flashed in Li Chengyu's eyes, how could he be a Han Chinese, and dare to swagger so arrogantly here?
'There's a play. Li Chengyu's eyes lit up, "You're fine, don't be reckless." The smiling young man grabbed him, it didn't matter if he went to investigate, if necessary, he could accompany him, but the problem was, there were dozens of people in this caravan, most of them were just guards, and some unrelated guys, "Don't worry, I have my own share." Li Chengyu patted him on the shoulder.
Look, that's all right, and if you have this disease in the future, give it charcoal.' Li Chengyu was in front of a horse, with some black charcoal on his hands, and fed it to the horse, and the herdsmen around him were very excited, and they were cured in this way. received a wave of thanks at the moment, and also dragged Li Chengyu to see if his animal was sick.
The veterinary technology of the Tang Dynasty was also very advanced, the imperial court had special animal husbandry and veterinary officials, and there were also special veterinarians in the prison field, and they were very good at studying horses and breeding horses. Taifu Temple also has a special veterinary education institution, with four veterinary doctors and 100 students. Since Li Chen boarded the plane, he has expanded the scale of the Taiyi Department, and even the veterinarians have not been spared, the number of veterinary doctors has increased by more than ten, and the number of students has increased by hundreds.
By the way, Li Chen's reform not only increased the scale, but also focused on changing the traditional master-apprentice system, which became like a university in later generations, with full-time doctors in each subject to specialize in guiding a certain course, and also increased the grade system to standardize the entire education system.
And in order to be a good spy, Li Chengyu also spent a year as a veterinary student. For the convenience of this time.
'Medic, come with me. When a group of herdsmen pulled and pulled, a young man with a square face came over, and when everyone saw him, they all stepped aside, "If you want to see a doctor, you have to wait for the next family to see it, don't worry" Li Chengyu said unhappily, "It's not for animals, it's for people." ''Look, people, show the animals, and the people look at them, I'll do it with one or two hands, let's go, look at the people in a hurry.''
The square face is displeased, what is called a beast to see, people also see, if it wasn't for his uncle's orders, his uncle has been sick for a long time, he wouldn't have come to this veterinarian... But since I'm asking for someone, I can only do this, so I said at the moment, come with me.
Li Chengyu staggered, and followed to the central big tent, looking at this, it should be the chief of this tribe who lives, Li Chengyu has a lot of experience with this tribe, and the conditions of this tribe are very good.
Not only is the water and grass abundant here, but there is also a river flowing through it, this tribe is not only herding, but also engaged in farming, can use yaks, will divert water for irrigation, which is rarely seen in other places, he has not seen nomads who can livestock, can farm, but they are so developed, it is rare to see. Therefore, he paid special attention.
In the big tent, a man with a frosty face, a scar at the corner of his mouth, and a sallow face, was soaking his feet, and came forward with a square face, and said something to him, and then Li Chengyu, the scar man, beckoned, 'You are a medical worker?' But it's Chinese, worthy of being the head, he and the face of the national character can actually speak Chinese, and I thought it was just that person.
'It's just a doctor in the rivers and lakes. ''How did you get here?'' ''Anyone invites me.'' Li Chengyu said a few words, and became impatient, "Alas, I said that you don't see it." I don't see if there are other foals waiting for my treatment. ’
'You.... The square face was about to get angry, but was stopped by the big man, "Then it will trouble you." He stretched out his left wrist, Li Chengyu pretended to check the pulse, shook his head and said, "This pulse seems to be calm and powerful, but... It's hard to say, it's hard to say. ’
'You quack, will you cure Ah? If it weren't for his father's intentions, he wouldn't let him come to see it, and now he is still saying this....
It's hard to say, it's hard to say. Wait a minute. I'll go back and flip through the books. After speaking, he turned around and left, muttering as he walked, the veins of this beast and man are not very similar, and he heard the square face, and the cold sweat on his back came down.
After that, the herdsmen can see a Han man, holding a few books, shaking his head and looking at it, scratching his head for a while, squatting directly on the ground for a while, turning over several books around, seeing that the herdsman is also full of black lines, no one dares to come to him again, whether it is looking at people or animals.
'Grandpa... Yi Li Sumire, will this decision be too reckless...', in the tent, a whisper came, 'Da Tang but...'' Yi Li Sumire, I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, this is my Khitan opportunity... Twenty parts.... ’
Li Chengyu listened carefully to the sound coming from the tent, at this time, he heard a loud shout in his ear, a tall shadow covered his vision, and then a big hand like a fan grabbed him, he did not resist, nor did he let him grasp it, and shouted at the moment, 'Get out, you stepped on my book and blocked my light.' ’
At that moment, he drew out the square face, and saw that it was Li Chengyu, who looked like he had accidentally swallowed a fly, sent Li Chengyu away, and scolded a few soldiers on duty, and several soldiers looked aggrieved.
'What's going on with Iwaki?' ''It's okay, master, it's the quack doctor, he actually stayed here for a long time and didn't leave. ''He.'' ''It's okay, sir, he can't even speak Khitan. But Li Chengyu, who didn't see the square face and couldn't speak Khitan words, walked back with a frosty face, and didn't look stupid just now. (To be continued.) )
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