Chapter 16 The Tuyuhun people who settled in Chang'an
Whether a country is good or not is easy to find out from business activities.
For the Tuyuhun people, the yak is definitely more than just a livestock.
Yaks are more like family to them, Tuyuhun people will take yak milk, yak hair, yak dung, but rarely kill yak to eat meat, many yaks are natural old age death, or die of disease, until the time of life and death, Tuyuhun people will not kill the yak as a treasure to eat meat, or sell.
As far as Yun Chu knew, this custom even extended to the fifties of his country.
It wasn't until the sixties that people had something to eat, which shattered the myth that yaks generally die of natural causes.
Then, after people tasted the taste of yak, it began to be bred in large quantities in the northwest highlands, and eventually became a dish on the table.
In the past, there were also a small number of yaks sold in Chang'an City, but those yaks arrived in Chang'an with consignments, and these yaks would be slaughtered and eaten for meat with the spirit of dying on the ground.
Now, Yun Chu can easily buy a hundred yaks, which shows that Tuyuhun no longer has enough pasture to feed so many yaks.
Moreover, they must very much need to get some supplies from the Tang Dynasty to support their king to continue to fight with the Tubo people.
"Or, you can change something else, I don't think what you need most now is consumables like tea, you see, I have a very good iron pot here......"
"We need armor ......"
Yun Chu sighed and said, "Do you look like the kind of person who can get armor?" I have a pair of armor at home, but it's worn by me, a soldier, and your requests are too much. ”
"Tang knife, spearhead, arrowhead......"
"Stop, stop, can you say something I can do, like an iron pot."
A Tuyuhun merchant stood up and said sadly: "Tuyuhun warriors, it has been six years since we fought against the Tubo people in Quling, and in these six years, although the warriors have done their best, we have still lost a lot of pasture, a lot of herdsmen, and a lot of cattle and sheep in front of the large number of Tubo people.
Those of us who graze cattle on the Dafei River can no longer graze cattle and sheep safely, so we can only sell our precious yaks and exchange them for some weapons to fight to the death against the Tibetans.
When we have nothing to eat, you want to sell us the iron pot, and you want to squeeze the last drop of blood out of the poor Tuyuhun herdsman. Young lieutenant, you have never seen those Tibetans with yellow mud on their faces, who will cruelly cut off your head and cheer in their hands. ”
Yun Chu waved his hand and said: "I have also done this kind of thing in the Western Regions, it is not fun at all, blood will be splashed everywhere, we usually cut off the enemy's left ear and string it on the leather cord, so that we can take more." ”
"Don't forget, behind Tuyuhun is Datang."
"You're right, when you and the Tubo people are defeated, it's our turn to go up and beat the water dogs."
"How can you Tang people do this? We are the vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, our king is the "King of Qinghai" crowned by the "Heavenly Khan", our Kedun is the Honghua princess of the Tang Dynasty, and the two sons of our king are also the princesses of the Tang Dynasty, and we are a family. ”
"Okay, okay, it looks like I'm not going to come up with good things, you guys won't let go, will you?
You see, Tuyuhun is about to be finished, I happened to get dozens of houses in Guangfufang, or Xiaolou, now that you have taken out your sacred yak and sold it, it can be seen that you don't have any good things to get your hands on.
Why don't you buy a few houses with me, live in Chang'an, take your wife and children over, and live in Chang'an, leaving the land full of the smell of cow dung forever and living in Chang'an. ”
Hearing Yun Chu say this, the three Tuyuhun merchants who seemed to be relatively wealthy left the hall and stood in the courtyard in Tuyuhun dialect, chattering a lot, it was obvious that two people were willing to stay in Chang'an and not go back, only one was older, seemed to be very stubborn, and beat the two younger Tuyuhun people with their hands.
Yun Chu saw that there was a play, and hurriedly instructed Cui Shi to take out the renderings of the construction of Guangfufang drawn by himself and spread them on the table.
The renderings are the same as those made by real estate developers in later generations. In this rendering, Guangfu Fang is a city that never sleeps with a weaving of people and brilliant lights, and even after the door is closed, the people on the inner street are still flowing.
There are young people who support the elderly on a night tour, there are men who put their children around their necks and blow the windmill with their mouths, and there are young couples who swim hand in hand.
Anyway, on this rendering, everyone is laughing, everyone looks happy, the food in the big canteen is incomparably rich, and the guests in the big inn are listening to the singers singing.
In short, if Yun Chu really moved the world in the picture to the real world, then Guangfufang deserves to be a real paradise on earth.
When the three Tuyuhun merchants came in again, their first attention was drawn to this picture.
The two young Tuyuhun people, who had been persuaded by the oldest Tuyuhun people, suddenly lit up again after seeing that picture.
Yun Chu added some tea to the old Tuyuhun merchant Jia, and said casually: "Brother looks like he is fifty years old, right?"
There must be a lot of people in this world who are sorry for you, and there are also many people you want to repay, right? ”
Old Tuyuhun closed his eyes, sighed sadly, and said nothing.
Yun Chu said again: "When a person lives to be fifty years old, he should basically return what he owes to others, and take back everything that others owe you."
This should be the best way to live, so that when you close your eyes and die, you will have no regrets.
It's a pity, this kind of death is a kind of luxury for many people, you die, what about many people who depend on you to live?
Do you continue to leave them to the murderous Tibetan people to kill, or do you leave them a place where they can live and continue to multiply, so that whenever they live a happy life, they will remember who created such happiness for them, so that you can live forever in their hearts. ”
The old Tuyuhun businessman, looking at the two selfless young Tuyuhun businessmen who talked to Cui's family, said: "Can we live in peace in Chang'an?" ”
Yun Chu nodded and said: "Of course you can, as long as you buy a house in Guangfufang, your name can be written on the title deed of the house, and the house will belong to you, and countless Hu people in the West Market can testify to this." ”
The old Tuyuhun shook his head and said, "Write my youngest son's name, I am ready to return to Tuyuhun to fight the Tubo people to the death." ”
Yun Chu sighed and said: "It's really a hero of Tuyuhun, I even think that with a Tuyuhun person like you, Tuyuhun should not perish."
I'm a strange person now, how did you drive so many yaks from Dafeichuan to Chang'an. ”
"We came out along the great river, and although it was a little harder, it was safe, there were no people, no shepherds, and no robbers."
"Big River? The big river outside Tongguan? ”
"It's the big river, but after we got out of the canyon, we went on the main road, so that the Tibetans couldn't find us."
"It's not that the Tubo people can't find you, it's that the Tuyuhun officials and the army can't find you, right?"
The old Tuyuhun looked at the wonderful prospect that had been depicted by the Cui family, and the young Tuyuhun who was dazed gritted his teeth and said, "I want ten big houses." ”
Yun Chu pouted and said, "A hundred cows can only buy a big house, you don't have so many cows." ”
Old Tuyuhun said lightly: "We have five hundred cows. ”
Yun Chu smiled: "Okay, the five big houses are yours." ”
"I'm going to see the big house now."
"Okay, I'll show you."
Half an hour later, the four people on horseback came to Kwong Fook Fong, and they didn't see the big house, only a busy construction site.
"Where's the big house?"
"Under construction."
"Liar!"
Yun Chu looked at the two young Tuyuhun people who fell directly from heaven to hell, and felt that they didn't know anything about the new thing in Chang'an-the pre-sale of houses.
He didn't explain much, he directly dragged the boy who sold Hu Biscuits out of the store, and said to one of them, Tuyuhun: "You see if you like his house or not, if you like it, you can live in it tonight." ”
The young Tuyuhun looked at the dilapidated and low house of the young man who sold Hu Cakes, and shook his head again and again: "I want a new one." ”
Yun Chu said with a smile: "If you want a new one, you have to wait half a year to build it, which is the kind you think." ”
"You're a liar!"
Yun Chu didn't expect these Hu people to admit death so much, so he led him to a house that had just laid the foundation, and said to him: "From today on, you will stay here, and after half a year, when the house is built, you will live in it, and the five big houses side by side here will be yours." ”
"We want title deeds." The old Tuyuhun finally came up with a more reliable idea.
Long before Yun Chu built the house, he had already divided the original title deeds from Hu Cao in Wannian County and divided them into new title deeds, and asked Liu Yi to find out the title deeds of these five houses that had not yet been named, and handed them over to the Tuyuhun people, so that they seemed to be relieved.
The business was done, Yun Chu got 500 cows, and when he saw 500 dying yaks in Luoma City, he knew why these three Tuyuhun people were so gullible and so eager to ask for a house, in such weather, at most, no more than a month, these 500 yaks would all die of heat.
asked Liu Yi to find a hundred and ten people from Jinchangfang, quickly cut off all the hair on the yaks that were about to die of heat, and then fed them well water, so that they seemed to have some spirits.
Seeing the bare yaks that gradually began to graze, Yun Chu was relieved to think that he should do more business with the Tuyuhun people.
A tribe that is experiencing war, there should be many people willing to flee Tuyuhun and settle in Chang'an, right?
(End of chapter)