Since Xu Yang put forward the theory of sheep eating people, the Western Turks have become a huge breeding market in the Tang Dynasty, at first only a small number of herdsmen breeding and grazing, until they found that the money from the previous worthless wool sold in the Tang Dynasty could actually buy a year's rations, and the Western Turkic herdsmen almost went crazy without excitement.

Only those who have experienced the life of the grassland know the preciousness of food, and the people of the grassland not only fight against the sky and the earth, but also against the endless natural environment.

The snow in winter, the wild wolves in summer, the people on the grassland are a people struggling on the line of life and death, and the Han people in the Central Plains only know their bravery, but no one knows that behind their bloodthirsty ferocity is a bunch of babies waiting to be fed.

In the final analysis, the Turks are also human beings, they don't know how to farm, they don't know how to weave mulberry, but they also need to live, so they come in droves every year to invade the borders of the Han people.

They just need food.

And now, the Tang people have given them a bright way, that is: to raise sheep hard, then shave the wool and sell it to the Han people, and then exchange it for the materials they need.

At the call of the Turki Khan, the Western Turks began an era of universal grazing.

Horses were no longer raised, cattle were no longer raised, only sheep were raised, wool became the golden bread of the grassland, and even began to slowly become a general equivalent for trading between people.

Life has gradually become richer, in the past, the Tang people used to blockade the Turks iron pots, shovels, tea, spices, porcelain, etc., now with wool can be exchanged, if the wool money is not enough, the Tang people also collect cattle and horses. It was convenient for the Turks to dispose of large herds of horses and cattle.

But there is always an element of restlessness in the social structure of human beings. When you are well fed and warm. What they are thinking about is not just to continue to maintain the current situation, but to demand the development of a higher pursuit, as is the case in the Western Turks today.

As we all know, the current Western Turkic leader Tuli Khan is a complete pro-Tang element, when his uncle Jieli Khan and the Tang Dynasty competed against each other, the Tuli Khan maintained a full cordiality to the Tang Dynasty, not only did not send troops to help his uncle, but leaked a lot of Eastern Turkic intelligence to the Tang Dynasty.

This behavior of the Turks was criticized by many people who supported the unification of the Turks. They also firmly believed that only the Tang people were their only enemies, and that the Eastern and Western Turks were still brothers.

The Eastern Turks were finally destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and for a time Li Er became the overlord of the entire Central and East Asia, and the Western Turks were still inferior to the military strength of the Eastern Turks.

Therefore, for a period of time after the fall of the Eastern Turks, the Western Turks were calm, after all, those rebels also knew that now was not the best time.

With the expansion of the wool trade, places such as Youzhou now seem to have become the second home of the Western Turks. The extreme prosperity of commerce also aroused the desires of those with bad intentions.

The High Priest of the Western Turks was such a man.

The High Priest had been following the Turi Khan since very early on, and each Khan had an exclusive sacrifice. The high priest is the royal sacrifice of the Turks, a long time ago, the status of the sacrifice in the Turkic tribes was very high, the main divination, omens, but with the defection of the Turks, the status of the high priest is not as good as day by day.

The Western Turkic people seem to have been put under a spell, they are no longer as brave and good warriors as before, but envy the rich families with cattle and sheep everywhere, since the beginning of the two years, the beautiful girls of the Turkic people are no longer proud of marrying a brave Turkic warrior, but more and more Turkic women are marrying into those rich Turkic herdsmen as concubines.

The high priest has repeatedly explained to Tuli that this is the Tang Dynasty wants to kill people and destroy the Western Turks without blood, and must resolutely resist this assimilation of the Tang people, but Tuli waved his hand at himself with disdain, saying that he is too careful, since then, the high priest thinks that Tuli has also become a lackey of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no pure blood handed down from the steppe wolf in his blood, but has become a wolf dog mixed with filthy blood.

Now that the old king has corrupted, a new king is needed to save the Turks.

At the beginning of the third year of Zhenguan, the long-brewing Western Turkic high priest broke away from the rule of the Turki Khan after half a year of taoguang and obscurity, and led the three major tribes of Rosso, Bumeng and Wedge to break away from the five major tribes led by the Turki Khan, and established themselves as the new Turks, absorbed a group of fleeing remnants of the Eastern Turks, established a new regime, and claimed to be a regime with real wolf blood.

As an emperor, he knows that the most terrible enemy of a nation is not the outside world but internal friction, like the Western Turks, which is still an enemy in nature, he does not have the slightest support and sympathy, so for the Turkic letter requesting support, Li Er only replied to a letter, such as national righteousness and the like, and finally has one meaning, support you spiritually, materially, don't even think about it.

I heard that the new regime and the Western Turks have fought several battles on the steppe, each with its own victory and defeat, but it is still the Turki Khan who has a favorable shape, after all, the fact that he can trade with the Tang Dynasty provides a favorable guarantee for his rear......

"Tuli is a mongrel wolf mixed with dirty blood, he is not qualified to have the totem of the wolf, we are bound to get this wolf, Rosso, Bumeng, and Wedge are willing to give two thousand cattle in exchange for such a wolf statue." The big man in the grassland costume said with a strong face.

"Ahem." The old man on the side seemed to be extremely angry, and coughed for a long time before he said angrily: "The Turkic Khan has the blood of the original Khan of the Turkic tribe flowing in his body, and he is the most noble royal family in the steppe. ”

The transaction has reached a white-hot stage, because the price has exceeded 20,000 yuan, and no one can come up with so much cash, so they have to use cattle and sheep to count.

"Three thousand one cows!"

"Three thousand one hundred and fifty cows!" ……

Fang Xuanling on the side felt a little dizzy, just now in the audience, he quietly asked Xu Yang how much the glass wolf cost, Xu Yang carefully held his chin and calculated, and finally said that the two emeralds in the wolf's eyes are worth a hundred.

Hundreds of times, in exchange for 3,000 cattle, this trading method simply subverted the three views of the old house, in Xu Yang's words, he took a pile of sand in exchange for money tonight.

What a skill! This is the horror of Guiguzi, you fight for your head and blood, and in the end, what you have worked hard to get is disdainful of people, and you have to admire the thaumaturgy of Guigu.

Li Er listened to the quotation in the hall, every time the price of the two Turkic tribes increased, he was overjoyed, Li Er didn't care about money, what he cared about was those cows.

Datang is still in a period of great development, this year's Guanzhong has been planted with potatoes, next year's potato planting land has almost reached the maximum, with those cattle, how much wasteland can be reclaimed, and how many people can live a good life.

"Three thousand five hundred cattle, plus five hundred sheep!" The big man in the grassland costume gritted his teeth and said, this is the maximum price that the three of them can spend, although they are unwilling, but if there is more, there may be a situation of starvation to death this winter.

A smile appeared on the corner of the old man's mouth, from the age at which he had lived, it was obvious that the new regime had reached the end of its power, and this must be the maximum price they could offer.

Unhurriedly, the old man said slowly: "Three thousand five hundred cattle, plus six hundred sheep." ”

When the big man heard this, his face turned red, and he turned around and discussed something fiercely with more than a dozen people around him, but in the end, he also lowered his head in decadence and gave up bidding again.

"Three thousand five hundred head of oxen and six hundred sheep once, three thousand five hundred head of cattle and six hundred sheep twice, three thousand five hundred head of cattle and six hundred sheep three times! Okay, deal. Xu Yang happily knocked down the hammer...... (To be continued......)