Chapter 19: A Human Youth
Pi Luo Ge looked at Yun Chu sluggishly and said: Do you want the heads of Ma Lai Aqu and Pulong, Manlong, and the owner of the Black Tooth Village?
Yun Chudao: Go and discuss it with your father, to be honest, I regard the various ethnic groups in the southwest as brothers, since it is a family matter, we will use family law to deal with it, if we can not use swords, we should not use swords.
Hurry up and deal with these things, and make a deal as soon as possible is what I want to see, I think, your father has just unified Nanzhao, and at this time, what is needed is rest and recuperation, not some war.
Pi Luo Ge said: Are you really willing to trade with us? When I came, I heard that it was you who ordered you to stop all trade with Nanzhao.
Yun Chu threw out a small bag into Pi Luoge's arms and said: Do you think this is a deal for such a pound of salt for a leopard skin?
Pi Luo Ge opened the small bag, saw that there was snow-white salt inside, dipped a little of his finger in his mouth and said: This is the best salt, it is worth changing a leopard skin.
Yun Chu sighed and said: You have been deceived for too long, we bought a beautiful leopard skin as a mattress in Chang'an, those female merchants told us that this leopard is a good thing that can only be caught by warriors in the forest, and there are many people who were bitten to death by leopards in order to catch leopards, so they said that leopard skins are very precious and need us to exchange more salt.
Guess how much salt you need?
Pi Luo Ge said: Ten catties?
Yun Chu sighed and beckoned, and immediately two guards carried a sack of salt and threw it in front of Pi Luo Ge.
Piloco jumped up and shouted: So much? As soon as he finished speaking, the guard carried a sack of salt and threw it in front of Piloge.
Yes? That's impossible......
Yun Chudao: We still think we have taken advantage of two sacks of salt in exchange for a high-quality leopard skin, why, do you think salt is very precious?
Pi Luo Ge said: Dig a well, dig a very deep salt well, set up a very high shelf, a very long pole down to the bottom of the well, and then use the ox to drag the roller to pull the pole up, there is salt water under the pole, and then boil the water dry with a high fire, you can get precious salt.
Yun Chu Dao: Datang is very big, the way to obtain salt is very different, in Shuzhong is so salt, but, on the seaside, people wait for the sea tide to dig ditches to guide the sea water into the salt pan, and wait for the sun to evaporate the water in the salt pan, and then get salt.
In other places, salt is on the ground, and people just need to put it in bags and bring it back to sell.
So, in general, Datang's salt is not expensive.
You see, we just have too little contact, so we don't know the real needs of the people of Nanzhao.
Speaking of which, a certain family didn't even know until now that you don't even have a cooking pot, not enough linen, and even no shoes.
Yun Chu said and glanced at Pi Luoge's bare feet with pity.
Piloco wanted to hide his bare feet, but he was still proud: only barefoot can walk like the wind in the mountains and forests.
Yun Chu raised his hand, Li Si took a pair of shoes with a thousand layer soles, and Yun Chu threw it to Pi Luo Ge and said: The weather is getting colder, put it on, wearing it will not affect you to walk in the forest like flying.
If you don't have a house, if you live in a cave, you say you don't need a house, you don't know how to grow food, you say that there is food in the forest, you don't need to cultivate, you don't have clothes to wear, you say that animal skins are better, and now, even if you don't have shoes, it can be said that you can walk like flying.
O Piloco, you are a smart child, is it really good to go on like this?
People living with pigs for heating are easy to get sick, children can't grow tall if they don't have enough to eat, women can't have children and grandchildren if they don't have a warm house, and the elderly can't live long if they suffer too much.
The Nanzhao people have lived in the forest for many, many years, and your life history in the forest is almost as long as the history of our life in the plains, but there are only a few of you, how many people are there in Datang now?
Speaking of which, it is because you don't know how to build a warm house, there is no material to weave, you have to fight against all kinds of fierce beasts and poisonous insects in the forest, and the people on the plains don't need it at all, the wolf is almost extinct near Chang'an, and the fierce beast of the flower bear is now living at will in Chang'an City, whether it is adults or children, they can knead and play.
Since you know what I want, just send them here, I won't kill them, just send them directly to Luoyang, and let them confide in the emperor's face why they want to resist.
I think, after saying that, His Majesty the Emperor has no reason to kill them, maybe he can live in the prosperous Luoyang from now on.
Go to Pi Luoge, I know that your father is in the mountains and forests not far from Chengdu, tell him not to be so nervous, I don't want to fight, just send the people I want, and we will start trading immediately.
Pi Luo Ge bowed his head and said, "I know this is your plan, but I will still tell my father what you said.
Yun Chu sighed and said: If your father wants to kill you because you went back alive, you tell him that I want to talk to him face to face, and I also want to ask him if he really has the strength to be an enemy of the Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Donghai took Pi Luo Ge to visit the entire Tang military camp, and also took him to see the crowded market and the mountain of freight yards, and then sent Pi Luo Ge back.
Zhang Donghai saw that Pi Luoge had gone away with the people, so he returned to Yun Chu and whispered: Will they send the enemy we need?
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "No."
Zhang Donghai said again: Do you think the marshal will come to attack us and rob the supplies here by the way?
Yun Chu shook his head and said: No.
Zhang Donghaidao: So, wouldn't it be a pity that the big marshal let Pi Luo Ge go?
Yun Chu stopped the brush in his hand, grabbed the ear as big as a female fan, and said: "I think Sheng Luopi may pretend to send those warriors over, so that these people can find an opportunity to cause a riot in our camp, and then he will lead a large army over the mountains and mountains to attack us.
Zhang Donghai was stunned for a moment and said: Why?
Yun Chu smiled and said: Because what I have seen and heard for Pi Luoge is very suitable for this strategy.
Zhang Donghaidao: What if they don't come?
Yun Chu spread his hands and said: The plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky, and if they don't come, we have nothing to lose, right?
Zhang Donghaidao: If they all come, will the marshal leave them alive and send them to Luoyang?
Yun Chudao: If they are so stupid, it will be meaningless to spare their lives, and when the time comes, it is the right way to send their heads to Luoyang with lime.
Zhang Donghai said in a low voice: How do you think that this Pi Luo Pavilion is like an ambitious person, he came to see the big handsome, maybe he came to investigate our reality.
Yun Chu laughed and said: Most of the heroes in the wilderness like to take risks, since you have seen through it, you will give some face to the children of others, and when people secretly come to burn our materials and grains, don't let him not get off the stage, I like this child very much, and it will be of great use in the future.
When does the marshal think he will come?
Yun Chudao: At the beginning of the month, there was no moon at that time, not to mention, the weather was cold, the northwest wind was coming, and it should be a very suitable day for arson.
A smile appeared on Zhang Donghai's face and said: I will not start preparing from tonight.
Yun Chu waved his hand and said: Go, remember, you have to leave a few living mouths to see Pi Luo Ge's embarrassing appearance.
Zhang Donghai smiled and agreed.
At dinner, Yun Chu and Li Si were left in the military tent.
Li Si didn't have much heart to eat, and a good bowl of noodles was poked into a paste by her chopsticks.
Yun Jin: Are they scheduled to raid Wenshu Monastery tonight?
Li Si said casually: Yes, even tonight, listening to the news from Zhou Xing, the people in Wenshu Monastery are not easy to mess with, and there are some monks who are similar to dead soldiers, who are very fierce.
Yun Chu said indifferently: The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Wenshu Monastery dares to fight against Buddhism for many years, so it must have some capital.
Li Si continued to poke the noodles with chopsticks and said: I am worried that there will be deaths and injuries.
Yun Chu was silent for a moment and said: For now, the task they are facing is not difficult, if they unfortunately die in this low-intensity, low-level battle, it will be their fate.
Li Sifa hurriedly said: Aya is not worried about Meiyuer at all?
Yun Chudao: Worried, but he has to do things, or does he have to do anything as long as I'm worried?
After that, seeing that Li Si really didn't have the intention of eating, he poured the paste from her bowl into his rice bowl, and ate it with a snort, although he had a habit of cleanliness, he didn't feel any psychological discomfort about eating Li Si's leftovers, just because he had eaten countless times since Li Si was a child.
This night, Yun Chu still worked late.
Except for the sound of water splashing from the mouth of the flying fish in Dujiangyan, the barracks is surprisingly quiet.
Yun Jin's face was covered with a black veil, squatting on a pine tree outside the Wenshu Monastery, carefully overlooking the Wenshu Monastery at his feet.
After a whole day of hustle and bustle, the people in Wenshu Monastery are also sleepy, seeing that the eternal lamp in the Buddha hall is still flickering dimly, and the rest of the Wenshu Monastery is only chatting about a few lights.
Li Chengxiu and the others had already made two rows of holes in the courtyard wall to the north, and the ropes had been tied, just waiting for Yun Jin's order, the horses outside the courtyard wall would pull down the courtyard wall in unison.
The monks with long-handled broad-bladed swords stood on both sides of the north wall, and rushed in until the courtyard wall collapsed.
The moonlight fell on the monks' bald heads, reflecting an iron-like cold glow.
The fat Zen master who crossed the sea sat cross-legged at the foot of the pine tree that Yun Jin had climbed, as if reciting scriptures.
Seeing that the moon was about to set, a low night owl suddenly sounded.
Li Sifa hurriedly said: Aya is not worried about Meiyuer at all?
Yun Chudao: Worried, but he has to do things, or does he have to do anything as long as I'm worried?
After that, seeing that Li Si really didn't have the intention of eating, he poured the paste from her bowl into his rice bowl, and ate it with a snort, although he had a habit of cleanliness, he didn't feel any psychological discomfort about eating Li Si's leftovers, just because he had eaten countless times since Li Si was a child.
This night, Yun Chu still worked late.
Except for the sound of water splashing from the mouth of the flying fish in Dujiangyan, the barracks is surprisingly quiet.
Yun Jin's face was covered with a black veil, squatting on a pine tree outside the Wenshu Monastery, carefully overlooking the Wenshu Monastery at his feet.
After a whole day of hustle and bustle, the people in Wenshu Monastery are also sleepy, seeing that the eternal lamp in the Buddha hall is still flickering dimly, and the rest of the Wenshu Monastery is only chatting about a few lights.
Li Chengxiu and the others had already made two rows of holes in the courtyard wall to the north, and the ropes had been tied, just waiting for Yun Jin's order, the horses outside the courtyard wall would pull down the courtyard wall in unison.
The monks with long-handled broad-bladed swords stood on both sides of the north wall, and rushed in until the courtyard wall collapsed.
The moonlight fell on the monks' bald heads, reflecting an iron-like cold glow.
The fat Zen master who crossed the sea sat cross-legged at the foot of the pine tree that Yun Jin had climbed, as if reciting scriptures.
Seeing that the moon was about to set, a low night owl suddenly sounded.