Chapter 55: Give Me Tuli a Face
Chang Yi rubbed his aching arm, his eyes showing incredulity and shock. He could see that Luo Shixin's previous words were not to fool him, but he really decided to do so, and he was a little helpless in his heart. Similar to him, a character who likes to think a lot and is good at layout, the most uncoping thing is a character like Luo Shixin who does not follow common sense.
Before he came, he had closed his eyes once along the way, thinking about how to complete the task better. Like Golluka, he was not martial, and the only brilliant thing was his brain, but he was jealous of Golluka and was useless. It is only now that Golluka has disappeared inexplicably, and he has no place to be used. The opportunity is rare, Chang Yi vowed to grasp this opportunity, for every detail, every link has been repeatedly scrutinized. According to his thoughts, he took the lead in breaking through Datang's purpose and increasing his own bargaining chips, instead of falling into passivity and letting the Datang lion open his mouth. Then, according to the needs of the Tang Dynasty, he repeatedly debated and discussed, and he was confident that he could persuade Luo Shixin and the Nagan literati under his command with his tongue.
This calculation is good, but for Shang Luo Shixin, all his ideas have become useless.
Luo Shixin didn't talk to him at all, and drove him out.
Chang Yi was forced to choose to compromise. In the same way, he also knows that with this compromise, the advantage is nothing.
Regarding Luo Shixin's ridicule, Chang Yi also held his breath and said: "Then I don't know what conditions the general has, we can sit down and talk slowly." β
"Talk about your uncle!" Luo Shixin exploded directly and said, "Lao Tzu is a rough man. A half-toned literati like you has nothing to say. Go back and tell your Khan, that a captive should be given a cow and a horse, and that he should prepare for me four thousand head of cattle and four thousand horses. Ten days later, give me an answer. If there is no news, let him let the tribe wait, and I will send him three thousand heads. That's it, come, and throw out the messenger who came from this diagram. β
Chang Yi was dumbfounded again, and finally understood that Luo Shixin didn't plan to talk to him at all. When the guards came in to capture him, they panicked and said: "A prisoner for a cow and a horse is also three thousand horses and three thousand cows." How could it be four thousand cows, four thousand horses? β
Luo Shixin grabbed the inkstone and threw it away, saying, "You Turks don't need to eat?" Here in Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu provides them with beef and horse meat every day, and they can eat each one like pigs. In just a few days, he ate nearly 1,000 cows and 1,000 horses. Interest has not been calculated for you yet. I already look up to you. β
The inkstone was in the middle of Chang Yi's head, and he deliberately controlled the force, which was not enough to be fatal, but he directly suppressed what Chang Yi was going to say.
There was still ink left on the inkstone, and the ink sprinkled Chang Yi's face, which looked extremely funny.
Before Chang Yi could react, his body had already floated into the air.
Listening to Chang Yi's voice getting farther and farther away, Luo Shixin's eyes showed a hint of fierceness: This is for the people of Shuofang. He chose to make a deal with the Turks, otherwise the three thousand Turks would be directly exposed to the wilderness. It becomes the belly food of vulture dingots. It's good now, with a bit of intelligence, I saw through my intentions, and I want to make a deal with myself?
When will it be the turn of the little Turks to speak in this world, love or not, kill if you don't give!
It's not that he can't develop without cattle, but he can't do it, he paid for cattle and transferred the military horses to plow the land. Forcibly get the fields up, and the Turks were not given the right to bargain.
In Luo Shixin's opinion, the little Turk can only pout his ass and accept it, seeing that he wants to attack in turn, he has a temperament, and he doesn't even say anything to Changyi, and directly asks people to throw him out.
The guards outside the big tent also faithfully carried out Luo Shixin's order, and along the way, they lifted Chang Yi's hands and feet high, ignored his shouting, walked directly to the camp gate, and then threw it on the ground.
Chang Yi threw his butt back, and the posture of flat sand and falling geese was thrown outside the camp gate.
The pitch-black ink face drew a straight line on the ground, accompanied by a little red blood.
The Turkic guards who accompanied them waited outside the camp, and when they saw Chang Yi so miserable, they all rushed forward, and some of them even drew their scimitars angrily. But at the moment when they drew their swords, the soldiers around them all raised their crossbows, and hundreds of swarthy arrows were aimed at their group, as long as one of them had the courage to move, a group of more than fifty people could not hide at this distance, and they would definitely become hedgehogs.
"Let's go!" The ink on Chang Yi's face scraped half of the grass, but the residual ink, plus the grass juice and the blood from the dirt on the ground, the trauma from the nose and mouth, the black, green, yellow and red can be described as colorful, and it is even more funny.
Fortunately, he did not lose his mind, but calmly stopped the Turkic soldiers and led them to the tribe.
On the way, he washed off a wolf bèi, told Ge Lulu Sili about the encounter of this trip, and also detailed the requirements of the Tang Dynasty: "Luo Shixin said that a prisoner was exchanged for a cow and a horse, and asked him to prepare four thousand cows and four thousand ......horses for me."
"How can it be!" When Golulu Sili heard the lion of Luo Shixin open his mouth, his face turned green, and he immediately reacted that the number was wrong...... Even if he has no culture, this basic addition and subtraction jΓΉ can still be calculated.
Chang Yi copied Luo Shixin's explanation as it was.
Golulu Sili's original green face turned iron blue again, and he specially went to investigate the situation of the people, and the three thousand tribesmen arranged to go to the riverside, lead the river to dig a canal, and bring the river water to Shuofang, so that the people of Shuofang could eat and irrigate. Opening rivers and digging canals, that is the most bitter and tiring thing, the clansmen are obviously suffering from inhuman treatment, in Luo Shixin's mouth, it has become a daily eating of beef and horse meat, and three thousand people eat nearly a thousand heads, and the big words are not very blown.
"Khan, what do you say we should do?" Chang Yi looked ashamed.
Gololus opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word, and Luo Shixin was cutting his flesh. But he knew that he couldn't say yes.
If there were no rumors of his deal with the Tang Army, he would have suppressed it. But now that the story has become known, everyone regards him as a good patriarch who will not hesitate to suffer humiliation for the sake of his people's lives. If he sat back and watched his people die because he was unwilling to bleed, his situation would be even more dangerous. If Luo Shixin is insatiable and his mouth is too wide, he still has reason to refuse. But the amount he asked for was not much, but it was a lot less, and it happened to be a heavy cut in his heart, which was within the tolerance of their clan. β
After pondering for a long time, Ge Lulu said vigorously: "There is still some time in the tenth day, you can go and discuss with Luo Shixin at a speed, so that he can eliminate the cattle and the sheep and horses, and I can multiply them to him several times." β
"It's useless!" Chang Yi shook his head and said: "I've thought about it all the way, and the main purpose of Luo Shixin this time is cattle." They led the river to dig canals, and put forward a number of political measures to control Shuofang, and they had the determination to do a great job. They need to plough the cattle, and they won't agree to our request, so they won't bring shame on themselves when they go. β
"Then we don't need it?" Gorodus's two eyes waited for Changyi.
Chang Yi was also speechless.
Many people think that the Turks eat meat and hail them as carnivores, but this is not the case. In ancient times, there was no such sophisticated breeding technology, and even nomads could not eat meat for meals. Otherwise, at most two litters in three years, and at most five sheep per litter, they will not be able to meet their consumption at all. They will only kill cattle, sheep and horses before they die of old age or when distinguished guests come. Their usual staple food is milk and barley, milk is a food with high nutritional value, and it is the purest milk food without any pollution, strong bones and health, and the burly and courageous milk on the grassland is the key to goat milk and mare's milk.
Of the three types of milk, cows are the least milk-producing but most festive animals, and they do not have the same additional role as horses and sheep. The former can be ridden and the latter is capable of producing wool.
Therefore, the Turks did not go into captivity to raise poultry such as farming cattle, which is of little use, but they could not do without it. Nomadism does not mean that there is no farming, just as an agrarian people cannot be without pigs, sheep, cattle and horses. They also need barley to fill their stomachs, and they must also raise some ploughing cattle to plough the land, and plant some barley on the land suitable for farming.
The Golulu was a large tribe, but their cattle were only about 6,000, and if they were given to Rossin, 4,000.
In the spring of the following year, they lacked enough cattle to cultivate barley. The grassland environment is harsh, and the lack of food can make them sad for a whole year. With 4,000 ploughing cattle missing, according to their farming techniques, there will inevitably be a shortage of food in the coming year, and they will fall into a crisis of life, which will hurt their vitality.
"Khan!" Just when the two were silent, there was news outside the house that Tuli was asking to see him.
Glolus was overjoyed and hurried out to meet him.
"It's because my intelligence has made a mistake, and I'm bitter!" Tuli's face was heavy.
However, he was in no mood to recall who was right and who was wrong, and how to solve the current situation, which was the most important issue for him, and directly told the situation.
Tuli was furious when he heard this, he grew up in Turkic, he naturally knew the importance of cultivating cattle, and said angrily: "This Luo Shixin is domineering and arrogant, doesn't he even talk about basic morality?" Let me come forward in this matter, I am a sworn brother with their Tang prince, and he should give me some thin noodles. As he said, a captive is exchanged for a cow and a horse. The Khan first exchanged with Luo Shixin so that his people would not continue to suffer. Take him back to the tribe and have a thousand oxen sent to you. β
Tuli comforted his most powerful right arm, and reluctantly cut a thousand oxen to the Gorluq tribe.
Thinking of the loss of 2,000 ploughing cattle, Ge Lulu Sili also felt a little stable in his heart, and hurriedly thanked Tuli for his help, and repeatedly said that he would not forget his great kindness, and when he fought with Jieli in the coming year, he would definitely take the lead.
Tuli nodded with satisfaction, and then pointed to one of his henchmen and said: "You go to Tang Ying, let him not be strong, give me Tuli a face, and ten days later, 3,000 cattle and 3,000 horses will trade outside the Shuobei grassland." (To be continued......)
PS: Tomorrow will be updated again, working overtime for three days in a row, and the update has been pulled down, sorry.