Kang Baoshan nodded in a panic, lowered his voice and said, "I understand, the leader speaks Turkic, and he said that he has a batch of Turkish coins in his hand, and he is willing to share them with our brothers."

Li Siye muttered in a low voice: "What am I going to do with the money?" Tell them to leave their possessions behind, or their lives will be lost!"

Kang Baoshan raised his head, forced out three points and calmly opened his teeth and claws and said: "Gurgling%$##"

When the leader of the big food caravan heard this, he muttered a bunch of words back.

"What did he say?"

Kang Baoshan was stunned, then turned around and said: "He threatened us, he said that he was a merchant who supplied imperial supplies to the Caliphate, and if we dared to touch their goods, we would be enemies of the entire Uyama Dynasty." When the Caliph is angry, he will send a great army against him, and then the little Turgish will be destroyed. ”

"......" Li Siye raised the scimitar in his hand and shouted at the other party: "Gurgle!"

The leader of the Great Food Caravan hurriedly raised his hands, swayed in the air in front of him, and muttered again.

"What do you mean by that?"

"They said they were willing to give up half of their possessions in exchange for our exalted hands."

This time the cannibals were a little more aggressive, and the caravans led the camels from the hump to unload from the hump a lot of silk wrapped in leather tubes and packed wooden boxes, the quantity of which amounted to exactly half of the total cargo.

"It's so refreshing?" Li Siye nodded in surprise, and whispered to Kang Baoshan: "Ask them how much these goods are worth."

Kang's translator immediately translated, and the other party replied in a muttering voice, and after Kang got the answer, he told Li Siye: "These coins are worth 50,000 dinar gold coins, or 3 million Datang Tongbao, or more than 4 million Tuqi Shi money."

Li Siye made a slight estimate in his heart, thinking that it was enough to pay and do good deeds, and immediately whispered: "Tell them, agree!" Let them pass!"

He waved his hand at Yuan Tao and the others who were blocking in front of the caravan, and quickly got out of the way.

The leader of the Great Food was not in a hurry to flee for his life, but raised his hand in front of his chest and gave a hug, and muttered again.

This time, without waiting for Li Siye's urging, Kang Baoshan had already taken the initiative to translate: "The elders of the caravan praise you for being a virtuous and temperate bandit, not being blinded by greed, and being a true wise man."

Li Siye raised his head and thought for a while, pulled the thick beard stuck to his chin and asked, "Isn't this scolding me?"

Kang Baoshan waved his hand again and again: "No, no, categorically not, these big eaters and Persians are the most straightforward in temperament, and they haven't learned to scold people like the Han people."

"Heh," Li Siye waved his palm and patted Kang Baoshan's head: "Don't go and move the goods yet!"

The Great Food Caravan calmly walked away under the watchful eyes of everyone, and they all sat up straight, unhurried, unhurried, as if they had just been robbed.

They carried the goods, loaded them on horses, and disguised themselves as Sogdian merchants, and returned to the city of Payi. It turned out that more than a dozen people from the sixth regiment followed behind Yuan Tao, looking at these goods that could be exchanged for real gold and copper coins, and they couldn't help but think about it.

One of them rode close to the marshal of the brigade and whispered: "This time we have contributed half of the men and horses, and we have also contributed, so we can share half of the wealth we get, right?"

Yuan Tao turned around and reprimanded, "What are you thinking? We were coerced by someone to make this move, and once we participated in the distribution of the spoils, it was equivalent to being in the company of bandits. Do you want to be soldiers? Or do you want to be a thief?"

"This theft is the head of Captain Li, we are soldiers, what is he?"

Yuan Tao looked up at Li Siye's broad back in front of him, and said with contempt: "He is the scum who mixed into my Tang army, I don't know how he achieved the position of captain, he must not last long, and if he commits more injustice, he will kill himself, you just wait and see." We will only do this kind of thing this once, and both sides have the handle in hand, and there is no need to worry about him going to report and pursue Captain Zhao's embezzlement of money. ”

"I don't understand why Yuan Lulu is so stubborn, he has done the robbery, but he doesn't take money, not to mention that he is robbing a big cannibal. Today, there are still 12 families of the deceased brothers who have not been resettled, and only a few of our brothers' salaries can be made up in what year and month. The court is unkind to us, so why should we insist on the righteousness of the law. ”

Yuan Tao said angrily: "Do you know that robbing the road and taking wealth are two different things!" If you do not participate in the distribution of spoils, you will not be criminalized. Once you participate in the distribution of spoils, there is a second, a third! Don't forget how Captain Zhao was found out and put in prison!"

Li Siye was in front, and he could vaguely hear their arguments in the back, and sighed in his heart that this bar essence would not be lacking no matter what era.

However, he admired this Yuan Tao's ethics very much, and he was pitted to this point by his superiors, and he did not give up the morals and values he adhered to, and he was really an out-and-out good athlete at the border.

As he was thinking like this, Yuan Tao chased after him with fifteen horsemen, and he arched his hand towards Li Siye on his horse: "Since the matter here is over, and you have enough people to transport goods, how about we leave the team and leave first to change cities?"

Is this to stay away from the evidence of the crime, or is it unwilling to be in the company of bandits like me?

Li Siye waved his hand indifferently and said: "Since this is the case, I will not keep you, Yuan Lurate, there is a share of your share in this property......"

"Stop," Yuan Tao immediately interrupted him: "We just agreed to help you do such things, this ill-gotten wealth will definitely not be taken, Captain Li, you are very precious."

He took the reins of the horse with both hands, turned the horse's head, and led his brothers to run into the distance, and among the people who followed him, several people turned their heads and looked at Li Siye's belongings on the horse with affection, sighed a few times and then walked away in a huff.

Li Siye saw them leave, turned back to Tian Zhen beside him and said: "Yuan Tao and the dozen or so people around him, most of them hold official positions such as team leaders and even chiefs in our Eighth Regiment, as long as they are brought together, it is equivalent to winning half of the hearts of the Eighth Regiment."

Tian Zhen said suspiciously: "How do I feel, this is a bit counterproductive, don't you see that Yuan Tao respects you?"

Li Siye shook his head and laughed: "He refused to be resolute on the surface, but he already had the intention to move in his heart, not to mention that the people around him were also ready to move. Half of this matter has become one, and the other half is up to us to solve our worries, and the money is moving. ”

They led their horses over the Bodaling Mountains on foot, but along the mountain road in the direction of Shule Town.

There are several hard currencies active in the market of the four towns of Anxi, and there is a stable exchange rate, the first is Kaiyuan Tongbao, although the number is inconvenient to carry, but after all, it is the legal tender of Datang, which circulates throughout the territory of Datang.

The second is silk silk, the silk cloth mentioned here is not the kind of high-end purple ripe silk, but ordinary raw silk, a horse worth between 450 and 500 Wen, which is a more stable hard currency than Kaiyuan Tongbao. Tongbao will often be affected by the impact of bad currency and depreciate, but the value of silk is stable, even in the vast Central Asian region, as a yardstick to measure prices.

The third is gold and dinar gold coins, which are also called Susan gold coins by the Central Plains, because gold is scarce and precious, so it is easy to carry. Merchants from the Persian region where the Great Eclipse ruled came to Anxi with gold, some as far away as Chang'an, to buy large quantities of paper, coffee tables, and silk to ship back, and the profits could be doubled.

There is also a kind of pepper from Tianzhu, which is also an expensive hard currency, and the further south you go, the more expensive it becomes, almost becoming a luxury item of the same value as gold, more often its price even far exceeds gold, and it is the favorite condiment of dignitaries and nobles in Liangjing and other places.

Li Siye and the others used these looted goods in the market of Shule Town to exchange six stones of pepper from a Hu merchant from Tianzhu. Pepper is more convenient to carry and store than other goods, and it is easy to sell, even if you carry a few catties of pepper to the door of the official and noble to give gifts, it also seems quite a row. It's like that advertising slogan, this year, Yuan Zheng doesn't accept gifts, only black pepper is accepted.

He also personally escorted pepper to Qiuzi, and sold only three of them, and made a fortune of 1.5 million. This is enough to prove that as long as you are willing to run, you can get more. If it is shipped to Chang'an to be sold, the price can be doubled.