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If these people in Tibet want to get Tang Zhou's secret recipe, they have to have some blood.

As soon as Tang Zhou said this, Tubo Songzan frowned slightly, but quickly nodded in agreement: "Oh, I don't know what conditions the little marquis has?" ”

Tang Zhou shrugged: "Actually, there are many of these secret recipes and condiments that are unique to my Datang, even if I tell you, I'm afraid you may not be able to buy them, so my conditions are very simple, trade." ”

Hearing the trade, Tubo praised him a little puzzled, and said: "The little marquis is really joking, when I married your princess of the Tang Dynasty, I had already sent a messenger to tell your Tang Dynasty that we Tubo and your Tang Dynasty are going to open a trade place and conduct trade, what do you mean by talking about trade at this time?" ”

When Tubo married the Tang princess, did he really just fall in love with the beauty of the Tang princess? Tubo is so big, there is no shortage of beauties, and the reason why Tubo must marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty is not because of the resources of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is cultural resources or other trade resources.

Therefore, Tang Zhou proposed trade again, but these people in Tibet were confused.

At this time, Tang Zhou was not in a hurry, and said: "That's right, we did talk about trade before, but we don't trade a lot of goods, just some tea, porcelain, silk, etc., and what you sell to us Datang is only some nomadic products, like some things in my condiments, you can't buy them." ”

Hearing Tang Zhou's words, Tubo Songzan's brows suddenly tightened, he finally understood, how could an envoy of the Tang Dynasty like Tang Zhou say something useless, and how could what he said have no purpose?

As smart as the Tibetan praiser, he finally vaguely sensed a clue.

"Oh, I don't know what is in this condiment of Tang Xiaohou, it turns out that we can't buy it in Tubo?"

"Let's not talk about the others, Ben Hou will say the same first, refined salt, can you buy it?"

Hearing the word refined salt, Tubo's praise heart suddenly sank, when the Tubo envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty intended to sell refined salt to them, but thinking that the price of refined salt was too expensive, and I was afraid that if there was too much refined salt, I would not be able to leave, in case there was another war between Tubo and Datang, and Datang threatened them with stopping the sale of refined salt, when they ate coarse salt again, where would they still feel delicious?

The flow of refined salt into the territory of Tubo will measure the wealth of Tubo into the Tang Dynasty, which is simply economic exploitation.

But thinking that the food made of refined salt was so delicious, Tubo praised and hesitated, and he had to choose one after all.

And after Tang Zhou finished speaking, he saw Tubo praise and pondered, he was not in a hurry, an ordinary dish with refined salt became very delicious, such a temptation is not something that anyone can resist.

Although Tibet praises the great talent, but no matter how eloquent the person is, he must eat, right?

He didn't believe that after eating a meal made of refined salt, he went to eat something else that still tasted.

Tubo praise did not give an answer on the spot, this kind of thing is in a hurry, whether to do it or not, it must be carefully considered, but the matter of refined salt was not negotiated immediately, but the matter of the wedding was said.

Three days later, the wedding of Tubo Songzan and the Tang princess was held in Heyuan.

There are a lot of things that need to be prepared for the wedding, but these are not things that Tang Zhou should worry about, after he went to the banquet, he took people to the military camp of the Tang Dynasty, on the way, Ma Qing said: "Little Marquis, refined salt, we really want to sell it to Tubo?" ”

Tang Zhou shrugged: "This is also what the saint means, the saint doesn't want to have a big war with Tubo for the time being, but we can't let them be so strong, we must find a way to weaken their strength, although people will become stronger after eating salt, but Tubo is not short of salt lakes, their coarse salt is not lacking, so we don't have to think about the problem that refined salt will make Tubo soldiers stronger, refined salt is expensive, and after eating other things, you will feel tasteless, If we can sell refined salt into Tubo, it will be a big part of my Datang's economic income, and the money from Tubo will flow into Datang, and we will have the strength to recruit troops and horses. ”

As soon as Tang Zhou said this, Ma Qing also felt that it was beneficial to sell refined salt into Tubo, but he was a little worried and asked, "Will Tubo agree?" ”

"It's hard to say, it depends on the personal situation of Tubo Song."

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When night came, it suddenly became very cold in this part of the river, and then snowflakes began to fall in the sky.

The snow in Heyuan was very large, and in just a stick of incense, the entire military camp was covered with heavy snow, and it was the first time that the Tang Army had encountered such a heavy snow and such a cold day after walking all the way for so long.

Therefore, but when night came, every Tang army was shivering with cold, and he couldn't sleep.

When they couldn't sleep, they began to wonder how the Tibetan people were often in this environment, how did they keep out the cold?

When the Tang soldiers were thinking about this problem, Tang Zhou was also thinking about this problem, his room was burning with a stove, and it was not particularly cold, but because of the altitude, he also felt that the weather here was much colder than other places.

After Tang Zhou thought of this question, he didn't have as many doubts as the Tang Dynasty soldiers, because he found that the clothes worn by the Tubo people were cotton, and cotton was a very common thing in his time and space, and many bedding and cotton jackets were all cotton, but Datang didn't have these.

Datang has not yet planted cotton, they either use silk to make clothes, or it is a kind of kapok, but these two things are not particularly warm, so in winter, there are very few people on the street, and there are often frozen bones on the road.

Tang Zhou didn't expect that someone in Tubo would wear clothes made of cotton, if he could get some cotton seeds to take back to plant, wouldn't the people of the Tang Dynasty also be able to wear cotton jackets?

His second mother opened a silk shop in the capital, and if the padded jacket was pushed out, it would definitely become popular in Chang'an City in winter.

After thinking of this, Tang Zhou suddenly couldn't fall asleep with excitement, he sat up from the bed, and walked out of the room to find someone to give instructions, but as soon as he walked out of the room, he saw a storm and snow outside, and the cold and freezing room seemed to be frozen, he rubbed his hands, and quickly hid back in the house, there was a stove in the house, at least warmer.

The matter of cottonseeds, it is not too late to say tomorrow, and this thing cannot be done too obviously, it is best to do it quietly, send someone to dress up in disguise, and collect cottonseeds in Tubo, but who is the right person to send for this matter?

The group of big men in his army looked like Tang people, and they wanted to buy it quietly, but I was afraid that it would not be easy.

Thinking like this, Tang Zhou suddenly patted his head and said, "How can you forget Ye Lian'er, she is from those small countries in the Western Regions, and her purchase of cottonseed should not arouse suspicion." ”