Chapter 37: On the eve of returning to Beijing
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Early the next morning, Dye Gan led the nobles back to the Turkic tent, Datou was dead, the Western Turks were bound to be in chaos, and he was anxious to lead his troops to accept the old Dulan tribe, and he was already impatient.
The Sui army completed the escort task, and they will also return to Dali City, in the vast grassland, Asduo sent one trip after another, until it was sent a hundred miles away, and her sister Anuli caught up with her, and she was reluctant to say goodbye to Yang Yuanqing.
On the grassy hill in the distance, the two sisters were riding on horses, looking at the Sui army in the distance, Asduo's eyes were a little red, and she asked in a choked voice: "Anuri, can I see him again?" ”
Anuri sighed in her heart, Yang Yuanqing is a Han clan, they are the daughters of the grassland khan, they are not just separated by the distance between mountains and rivers, they want to walk together, it is undoubtedly difficult.
She said softly to her sister: "You are just a little swan that has just grown up, you are the most beloved pearl of Father Khan, Father Khan will not let you marry prematurely, you pray to Tengri, I believe you will meet again one day." ”
Anuri pulled the reins of her sister's war horse and said with a smile: "Let's go!" Father Khan has already set out, and if he doesn't leave, he won't be able to catch up with them. ”
Asto turned back step by step, and slowly disappeared at the end of the grassland.
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Yang Yuanqing stopped the war horse, looked back at Asduo and gradually moved away, although Asduo was as tender as water, it was difficult to leave his iron-blooded heart in the grassland, his heart would never be tied by any woman, at this time, he had already let Asduo go temporarily, if there was fate, God would naturally arrange for them to meet again.
"General, will you marry her in the future?" Yu Chiwan slowly rode to his side, a pair of clear eyes staring at him, her eyes full of worry.
Yang Yuanqing looked up at the goshawk hovering in the sky, and said with a faint smile: "The big husband beware of being like a goshawk, soaring between heaven and earth, accommodating all things in the world, a woman, as long as I like it, I will marry her, whether she is Han or Turkic." ”
After speaking, he whipped his horse fiercely, and ran forward, he looked at the vast grassland, his mind suddenly became infinitely broad, and he laughed loudly: "Wei Chi, Fat Fish, Lao Kang, go back to Beijing with me!" ”
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Yang Yuanqing has been in Biansai for five years, and as he gets older, he also begins to miss his hometown, especially after his aunt and Niuniu wrote him a letter four years ago, there has been no more news, so he can't let go of it in his heart.
Yang Yuanqing is already a partial general, he wants to change places must be transferred by the military department, otherwise he can only go home in the form of leave, he asked Yujuluo for two months off, let Yang Sien guard Dali City for him, he began to pack his things, ready to return to Beijing.
These days, coinciding with the opening of the spring horse market in the Sui and grassland, the streets in the city of Dali have been full of people, the Sui Dynasty opened a horse market in Fengzhou, and the Turkic and Tiele departments for border trade, before the construction of the city of Dali, the horse market trade is generally carried out in Wuyuan County, but since the construction of the city of Dali, the official trade is still in Wuyuan County, and the private trade has gradually moved north to the city of Dali, and it is no longer like the official twice a year, there are transactions here all year round.
The prosperity of commerce also made several liquor shops and inns appear in Dali City, there are also many fixed shops, and even two low-grade brothels appeared, which is also the reason why Yang Yuanqing wants to upgrade Dali City to the county seat, upgrading to the county seat, the city can be expanded, and more residents will pour in, making Dali City more prosperous.
Yang Yuanqing strolls on Daxing Street, the main street of Dali City, Dali City is actually two main streets, with a cross-shaped structure, the east-west street is called Dali Street, and the north-south street is called Daxing Street, and almost all the shops are opened on these two streets.
Yang Yuanqing wanted to buy some border specialties for his aunt and Niuniu, and after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to buy them some good furs to bring back.
The products exported to the Central Plains by the Turks and Tiele were mainly horses, cattle and sheep, furs and medicinal materials, while the products imported by the Sui Dynasty were grain, silk, porcelain, cloth and handmade daily necessities, and tea was also available, but at this time, the steppe people had not yet begun to drink tea in large quantities, and only some steppe people close to the Sui realm found that drinking tea was important to them.
The noise and shouting on the streets of Daxing are very lively, groups of livestock walk through the streets, and the air is filled with the sour smell of livestock, but everyone is in high spirits and has not been affected in the slightest, the merchants of the Central Plains, the Turks, the Tiele people of all ethnic groups, and even the Sogdians have appeared, they are born merchants, where there are business opportunities, there are them.
Yang Yuanqing's bounty and military pay also accumulated a lot, enough to 2,000 hanging coins, which he exchanged from the Sogdians into 200 Eastern Roman gold coins, which were easy to carry.
There are dozens of change in his hand, so he bought a snow fox skin for his aunt, which is the Arctic snow fox hunted by the Gyalis people who live in the far north, easy and soft, very comfortable, he bought a pair of deerskin boots for Niuniu, and a deerskin horse bag on the horse, in addition to the first two years he prepared a pair of ruby bracelets for his aunt, and gave Niuniu a long sword made of Gaza iron, Gaza iron is also meteoric iron, the main production of the Gaza people are located in the Minush Basin, 'every rain, the vulgar will get iron, called Gasha, for the soldiers are extremely sharp'.
Yang Yuanqing was about to go back after shopping, when he suddenly heard the voice of the fat fish, "Lao Kang, what are you doing with so much tea?" ”
As soon as Yang Yuanqing turned around, he saw that Kang Ba and Fat Fish were not far behind him, Kang Ba was looking around looking for someone, but Fat Yu was complaining.
"You two!"
Yang Yuanqing shouted to them with a smile, "What are you doing?" ”
This time when he returned to Beijing, Yang Yuanqing brought Fat Fish and Kang Bas with him, and Wei Chi wanted to go home to visit his father, so he also returned to Beijing with him first, while Yang Sien, Liu Jian and Ma Shao stayed in Dali City.
Kang Bas has fifty taels of gold in his hand, which is the pair of porcelain vases he sold last time, he persuaded Fat Fish and Wei Chi to let them invest the money in him and do business together, Fat Fish saved more than 600 hangs, and Yu Chi also had more than 300 hangs, today Wei Chi is a little unwell, so Fat Fish and Kampas purchased the goods.
When the two of them saw Yang Yuanqing, they were startled, and stepped forward to salute together, "General, why are you here?" ”
"I'll buy something for my family, what about you?"
Fat Yu pointed at Kangbas, and said with a grudge on his face: "Wei Chi and I invested the money in him and let him make money, and he bought all the money into tea, this Turkic people don't drink tea, I don't understand, who does he buy tea and sell it to?" ”
Yang Yuanqing patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Don't underestimate Lao Kang, the porcelain vase he collected for four hundred yuan was sold for fifty taels of gold, his business mind is not comparable to you, you will not be wrong to listen to him." ”
Kang Bas said a little proudly: "The general still understands, general, I bought a total of 120 taels of tea with fifty taels of gold plus their one thousand hanging money, do you think it is expensive?" ”
Yang Yuanqing quickly calculated, converted to about fifty yuan a catty, in the capital, although ordinary tea is only thirty yuan a catty, but this is Dali City, this price can be said to be quite cheap, he was a little surprised and asked: "Where did you buy it?" Is it really that cheap? ”
Kang Bas said with a smile: "I bought it from a Luoyang merchant, he came to the horse market for the first time, he didn't know how to do it, he actually brought tea to sell, but he couldn't sell it, so I used the price of fifty hangs a load to buy all his one hundred and twenty loads of tea, he actually didn't lose money, just a little less, and I will earn the rest of the profits." ”
At this time, the fat fish said in a vicious voice on the side: "How do you want to make money?" ”
Kang Bas put his arms around his fat shoulders and smiled: "Old fish, you don't have to worry, the Turks don't drink tea, it doesn't mean that other steppe people don't drink tea, don't the Khitans drink tea the same?" ”
"But..... Khitan so far? ”
"Don't worry, someone will send it for us."
Combas's eyes suddenly lit up, and he waved his hand into the distance and shouted, "Anda! Anda, I'm here. ”
He used Sogdian, Yang Yuanqing had learned from him, and he could understand eighty percent, and when he turned around, he saw several Sogdians leading a team of camels dozens of paces away, and they looked quite similar to Kangbas.
The Sogdians had begun to appear in the city of Dali the previous year, and Kangbas entrusted these compatriots in his hometown to give his savings to his wife and daughter in his hometown, and at the same time he used his power to facilitate the Sogdian merchants, and established deep friendships with these Sogdian merchants.
Kang Bas and a few Sogdian merchants hugged tightly, laughing loudly, and the fat fish whispered: "General, Lao Kang is usually taciturn, and he can't kick a fart with three feet, why has he become so slippery now?" ”
Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, "If you are alone in the army in Samarkand and meet Han Chinese, you will be like this." ”
Kangbas pulled several Sogdians forward and introduced Yang Yuanqing to them, and the three Sogdians, hearing that they were the lords of Dali City, bowed down together to salute, and Yang Yuanqing asked them with a smile in Sogdian, "Which country are you from Sogdian?" ”
The three of them were greatly surprised to hear that the chief general of the Sui army could actually speak Sogdian, and the Sogdian merchant at the head said: "General Hui, we are Angolan people, from Bukhara. ”
Kang Bas added with a smile on the side: "They have been in Dali City for five days, and they will leave for Khitan tomorrow, and my tea is to sell to them, and I negotiated with them yesterday." ”
Yang Yuanqing couldn't help but secretly marvel at Kangbas's ability to do business, and he actually sat on the ground to buy and sell to make money, Fat Fish was overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled Kangbas aside and asked in a low voice: "How much do you sell?" ”
Combas smiled slyly, "Double." ”
Fat Yu laughed so much that he couldn't close his mouth, and in a blink of an eye, his six hundred hanging money became one thousand two hundred hanging money, this Lao Kang, it's really good!
He asked urgently, "Then what should we buy and go back?" ”
Kang Bas patted his chest confidently, "I asked General Changsun, there are the most profitable warlike horses in the capital, a good horse is sold from the grassland to the capital, at least three times the profit, I have calculated, we can buy two hundred high-quality war horses back to the capital, follow General Changsun, and there is no need to pay taxes, we will make a big profit this time." ”
"Triple as much!"
The fat fish was a little dizzy, and there were countless hanging coins floating in front of his eyes, could it be that his 1,200 hanging money would become 3,600 hanging money, in that case, he could marry a lady who was like a flower and jade.
"But the Turks generally refuse to sell the best war horses." Fat Fish suddenly remembered this fatal question.
Kang Ba smiled slyly, his eyes glanced at Yang Yuanqing, and the fat fish suddenly realized, it was still Lao Kang Gaoming, with the face of their general, which Turk would dare not sell horses to them?
Fat Yu shouted, "General, we ask you for one thing, this matter is related to whether Lao Kang can see his mother, whether Lao Yu can have children, and whether Wei Chi can meet his parents, in short, you must agree!" ”
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[End of volume 2, please see volume 31 into the capital is as deep as the sea]
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