Go and call Kang Guangde over! On the way back, Shen Long thought about the things he had to deal with after he went back, and then he would not only have to be in Yizhou, Tingzhou and other places, but also have many other things to be busy.

"Shouchuang, your name is small?" After a while, Kang Guangde came running over, a little behind Shen Long by a horse's head, nodded and asked.

"Guangde, you must be Sogdian, right? How did you end up in the Gobi Desert? Shen Long asked, and he guessed based on Kang Guangde's appearance, hairstyle, and surname that the Sogdians were still the nine surnames of Zhaowu in Chinese historical books, and they established many small states in the Western Regions, such as Kang, Shi, An, Mi, Cao, and He.

Among them, Kang is the largest suzerain, and its surname is An, Kang as the main body, including Cao, An, Shi, Kang, Shi, Luo, Bai, Mi, He, etc., the historical records include An Lushan, Shi Siming, Kang Jinde, Cao Lingzhong, Cao Yena, He Fu Diyan, Mi Fu and others; Shen Long saw that Kang Guangde's appearance and hairstyle were exactly the same as those of the Sogdians, and his surname was Kang, so he had this guess.

"Guarding Mingjian, the little one is indeed a Sogdian, and the little one was originally a Kangguo person, who once followed the Tang Dynasty to fight, and then began to do business; It's a pity that in my father's generation, the road to the Tang Dynasty was cut off by Tibet, and the family declined, so I had to flee to the Gobi Desert to live. Speaking of the past, Kang Guangde was also quite lonely.

"I see." Shen Long nodded, Shi Zaikang Guo Lite "good businessman, good profit, husband 20 years to go to other countries, where the benefits are", tirelessly, along the Silk Road east and west, from which many Lite settlements were formed, their prosperity and the prosperity of the Silk Road is closely related, once the Silk Road is cut off, the Sogdians will have a hard time.

"Guangde, I wonder if you are willing to return to your old business and do business for me in the Tang Dynasty?" After Tuntian, there are many products available for trading in Juliucheng, such as chili peppers, iron pots, etc., these things are a bit dangerous for the people of the Tang Dynasty to do, and now they have to continue to Tuntian, it is the time of lack of people, Shen Long is temporarily reluctant to let the people of the Tang Dynasty do this, so he thought of the Sogdians who are good at commercial activities, and it seems quite appropriate to let Kang Guangde do these.

"Catch, little one...... The little one still wants to continue to fight for my Datang! Kang Guangde was anxious when he heard it, he finally experienced three fights without dying, seeing that he was already able to become a candidate for the Han Navy, and when the time came, he would serve the Tang Dynasty for a few more years, and if he made meritorious deeds, he would have the hope of becoming a real citizen of the Tang Dynasty, how could he be willing to do business.

Shen Long understood his concerns after a little thought, so he was relieved, "The merchants are also working for my Datang, and my Datang will not treat the heroes badly, if you do it well, maybe you can become the people of the Datang Dynasty earlier than those who entered the Han Navy!" ”

"Dare to ask what do you plan to let the little one do?" As soon as he heard that it would not affect him to become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, Kang Guangde immediately came to his senses and hurriedly asked.

"You've seen it in the army these days, and now that Ben Shou is smelting iron in Tuntian, Juliu City, growing chili peppers, and creating such a light iron pot, there must be many people in the Western Regions who want these things, right?" Shen Long first took out these two commodities, as for grain or something, he was not willing to sell it, it was inevitable that there would be a war in the future, and no matter how much food there was, it would not be enough.

"What Shou said is that whether the chili pepper is cooked with beef, mutton, and chicken, it is indeed enjoyable to eat, and it sweats all over the body, and if it is winter, you can eat a little bit of it at each meal, it is really pleasant; And now most of the iron pots used by people in the Western Regions are bulky, far inferior to the iron pots of my Datang; If you are willing to sell these two things, you can definitely make a fortune! Kang Guangde inherited the gift of the Sogdians, and immediately understood the profits of this trade.

"Chili peppers are suitable for those places where the winter is cold, and iron pots are more suitable for grazing tribes, who are definitely willing to pay a lot of money for them." He also thought about who he should sell these things to.

"You can go and select reliable people from the clan, form a caravan, and run this business for my Datang; Remember, not only do you have to make money, but you also have to go everywhere to help redeem the exiled people of the Tang Dynasty. "Now the people of the Tang Dynasty are scattered all over the Western Regions, and it is too slow to rely on one city after another to liberate them.

And now Shen Long has to stay in Tingzhou for a while, at least before next year, it is unlikely that Datang will make any moves in the Western Regions, for such a long time, I don't know how many people of Datang will be tortured to death, Shen Long couldn't bear to see this, so he thought of letting Kang Guangde ransom people.

The Sogdians' business model on the Silk Road was to transport silk from the Tang Dynasty to the Western Regions, and then from the Western Regions to transport jewelry and jade to the Tang Dynasty, and the slave trade was also their business scope.

Moreover, the Sogdians were good at subjugating to certain political forces and gaining a certain political status, which was conducive to the development of commercial activities. For example, the Sogdian Manyak once represented the Turks and served as envoys to Persia and Eastern Rome, the Western Wei Jiuquan Juan Nuo Pantuo once served as an envoy to the Turks, the famous Sogdian merchants of the Tang Dynasty, Kang Yandian, Shi Wannian, Kang Fu Tanyan, He Fu Diyan, etc., all had the title of city lord, Cao Lingzhong officials worshiped the Beiting Daduhu, Kang Jue worshiped the Liangzhou Thorn History, and Kang Jinde was the Anxi Dadu Hufu Guoyi, and the list goes on.

In order to be able to do business, the Sogdians were also relatively flexible in religion, Buddhism, Yuanjiao, and Manichaeism all had their followers, so it was very convenient for them to deal with the small countries and tribes in the Western Regions, and it was much more convenient for them to ransom the people of the Tang Dynasty than for Shen Long to send a caravan from the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty's desire to redeem the Tang Dynasty people may arouse the vigilance of others, and the Sogdians are accustomed to engaging in this trade, and they can find help from their clans everywhere, maybe after the news spreads, for the sake of profit, other Sogdians will also participate in this trade, and the efficiency of rescuing the Tang people will be much higher.

"This guard will reward you according to the number of people of the Tang Dynasty that you redeemed, and when the number reaches a certain level, I will officially give you the identity of the people of the Tang Dynasty who have contributed to the caravan." For Shen Long, this is definitely more helpful to Datang than their death on the battlefield.

"The little one will be ordered, and the little one will definitely be able to do this well!" Kang Guangde nodded again and again, since it does not affect himself to become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, then there is absolutely no problem, and to be honest, the life of herding horses and sheep in the Pu Sea is better than that in the desert Gobi, but he prefers this kind of business and trade activities, after all, the Sogdians are a commercial people.

"By the way, when you are a small businessman, you must not forget to inquire about the military situation in various places." Kang Guangde will draw inferences from each other.

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