Chapter 370: The Sin Deal
After following the caravan for a few days, Temur finally returned to the Golqin steppe. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
After he returned to the grassland, he used the money to move around himself and several small tribes around him, and then took refuge in one of the most powerful tribes. With money to open the way, he naturally quickly gained the trust of the tribal leader.
Although Temur seemed to be very light when talking about these things, José still heard that what he had experienced here might not be easy. After all, if a person from a foreign tribe like Temur wants to gain the trust of the tribal leader in a short period of time, I am afraid that it can not only be done by money.
As for what means Temur used in this, since he was unwilling to say, Jose naturally would not inquire about it. However, Joseph has always had some knowledge of this guy's thoughts and ambitions, and it must not be difficult for him to disguise himself as a loyal subordinate.
But that's why Jose doesn't want to trust this guy, this guy has a scheming, but who guarantees that he won't use it on himself?
Temur said this, and seemed to glance at Joseph intentionally or unintentionally, and then continued: Under Temur's suggestion and organization, his tribe quickly pulled up a team of several hundred people, and then used it as a foundation to expand to some small tribes around it.
The steppe man is born to be a good horseman, and a tribe of a few hundred people can easily pull out more than a third of the cavalry team. With this capital, coupled with Temur's planning and operation, his tribe quickly annexed several small tribes around him.
However, this also attracted the attention of some slightly larger tribes in the surrounding area, and after the end of the war in the northwest, the tribes that had originally migrated from the north were also moving to the southern part of Geerqin. Last month, the tribe of Temur had grown into a medium-sized tribe with tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and a population of several thousand after annexing the last small tribe near the trade route.
This kind of strength is not bad in southern Xinjiang, but for those really big tribes, it is nothing. The news of the big tribes in the north was not good news for Temur's tribe, and although there were thousands of troops in his tribe, there was naturally no shortage of horses on the grassland, but there was an extreme lack of armor and weapons.
If the big tribes did return to their original pastures, then Temur had only two options, one was to defeat them and annex them. The second is to be defeated and annexed by others, but in this way, Temur, as the confidant of the tribal leader, will also be beheaded to shock people, just like the chief.
Temur would never be a man who would accept his fate, but he knew very well that with his current strength, it would be absolutely impossible to defeat the big tribes without sufficient equipment and weapons to arm the tribes. Just when Temur was worried, he unexpectedly received news from the caravan passing by the tribe, saying that the Northwest Army of the Bright Empire was in civil strife, and now the river valley was almost no longer owned by the Empire.
Temur was so clever that he immediately sensed the opportunity from these news, and he first confirmed the authenticity of the news, and then deliberately instigated the leader to send someone to Moduo City to test the commander of the Northwest Army. His intention is also very simple, since the Northwest Army has fallen out with the Empire, although there is no fight now, but war is also a matter of time, so the Northwest Army will inevitably prepare early.
The most abundant crops on the grasslands are not only herds of cattle and sheep, but also war horses! Among the major human empires, it is generally recognized that the best war horses are the spring-bred war horses from the grasslands, and even the most powerful cavalry of the Northwest Army is equipped with this kind of war horses. Originally, there were horse farms in the northwest, but after a war, these important areas were either unable to produce horses normally due to the war, or were directly deliberately destroyed by those Macedonians.
Under these circumstances, Temur believed that the Northwest Army still had an urgent need for war horses, and his tribe had thousands of high-quality war horses. Although his tribe is not large, maybe the Northwest Army doesn't look at it, but this kind of thing exchanging war horses for weapons and armor must still be very attractive to the Northwest Army!
When Jose heard this, he already understood what Temur meant, but this made his face change suddenly, and he couldn't help but whisper in surprise: "You mean, this guy Ronkedo actually agreed to exchange weapons and armor for horses?!"
Temur nodded, but there was a calm look on his face: "I have inquired clearly, the Northwest Army seems to be deliberately expanding its army, and materials such as war horses are no better than weapons and armor." After a battle, there will naturally be vacancies for dead and wounded, but there is a serious shortage of horses in the northwest. In addition, among the several small tribes in southern Xinjiang now, only our tribe has a considerable number of horses.
Therefore, the Northwest Army quickly agreed to contact us, and I, as the dealer in this matter, was sent by the leader to the city of Moduo to negotiate the details of the deal with Lonkedo. Our group also just arrived in Moduo City yesterday, but then I heard that Longkeduo seemed to be entertaining someone, so we were arranged to stay in the hotel after talking about it for a long time......
"Damn, these Northwest Army, really rebelled, and even disregarded the laws of the empire and sold iron tools to the grassland people! Don't he know that if the grassland people have sophisticated equipment and weapons, how harmful it will be to the northwest and to the empire? !
Qiao Se couldn't help but be a little angry, and he didn't care about Temur, the steppe man, in front of him, and scolded directly! But this person who didn't blame him, even if a person like Qiao Se had no feelings for the Bright Empire, he couldn't help but be a little indignant when he learned that the Northwest Army actually wanted to exchange iron weapons for the war horses of the steppe people.
The western frontier of the Bright Empire is close to the steppe people, and it is not known how much it has been invaded and destroyed by the steppe people in history. Every time the steppe people arrive, it is simply a disaster for the people of the northwest. Burning, killing and plundering, almost every time the steppe people invade the northwest, it will bring a bloody massacre, and the destruction and attack of the nomads on the agricultural civilization is also common in the thousands of years of history of the Celestial Empire.
Although the steppe people were brave and good at war, and produced high-quality war horses and fierce cavalry, there was only one thing that limited the nomadic people's unity of the human empire - the lack of iron weapons!
Iron ore resources on the grassland are very scarce, and the metallurgical technology of the grassland people is very backward, due to such conditions, in the barter trade on the grassland, iron tools are almost comparable to gold and silver!