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A few months later, the bitter cold arrived as scheduled!

Zhao Tuo and Ashina Simo sat in the tent, thinking about the supplies for the winter.

Salt, tea, cotton clothes, quilts, charcoal... Zhao Tuo looked at the list slowly, and Ashina Simo said with a sad face: "We have all the things for the winter, but there is not enough place to live!" ”

"The people in the cotton processing workshop are still four or five people crammed into a tent, and the cattle and sheep are still huddled in the wind and snow, I don't know how many can survive after a heavy snowfall!"

Zhao Tuo didn't raise his head, and said lightly: "Then let's build a city, so that everyone has a place to shelter from the wind and snow!" ”

Hearing this, Ashina Simo was stunned for a moment, and then said after a while: "You are joking!" ”

Zhao Tuo replied: "Of course I'm not joking. ”

Ashina Simo was very puzzled, and asked suspiciously: "We don't have anything here, what do we use to build a city?" Even if it is to be built, it should be before the snow falls! ”

Zhao Tuo looked at Ashina Simo with a look of disbelief, and said with a smile: "It's because it's snowing, so it can be built!" And the materials for building the city are everywhere. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Tuo took Ashina Simo out of the tent, came to the snow outside, pointed to the snow on the ground and said, "Let's use the snow falling from the sky as a material to surround a city wall." ”

Ashnasimo shook his head and said disappointedly: "This snow-piled city wall fell down as soon as the wind blew. ”

Zhao Tuo continued to explain to him: "The snowdrift is indeed not strong, but we pour water on it while piling it, and the water will freeze, layer after layer, the snow wall will become an ice wall, and it will be stronger than the stone wall at that time!" ”

Ashina Simo never thought that it could be like this, and as he spoke, he immediately summoned everyone to start implementing it.

Three waves of people, one wave of people collected the snow on the ground, one wave of people piled up the collected snow into a wall, and the last wave of people kept pouring water on the wall!

Little by little, in just one day's work, a section of ice wall two feet high and 100 meters long was built!

Zhao Tuo looked at the white ice wall and said to Ashina Simo: "At most, in seven or eight days, the city wall can be encircled!" ”

"You bring a few more people with me, and I'll teach you how to build igloos."

As soon as Ashina Simo heard that he could not only build an ice wall, but also an igloo, he immediately summoned fifty people and followed Zhao Tuo.

Find a clearing and shovel the snow above to reveal the land underneath.

Find some ice cubes, cut them into trapezoids, form a circle, and slowly build up to form a half-circle ice ball!

Zhao Tuo looked at the finished igloo and introduced to Ashina Simo: "That's it." ”

Ashina Simo observed carefully for a long time, and asked suspiciously: "Is this kind of ice hockey sure that it can live in people?" It won't collapse in the middle of the night! ”

"Nonsense! How can you not live people! ”

Zhao Tuo said angrily: "Not only can it live in it, but it is also very strong, and it is no problem to make a fire in it." ”

Seeing that Ashina Simo didn't believe it, Zhao Tuo brought him in.

The igloo doesn't look big, but the space inside can accommodate two or three people.

When you enter the inside, you can't feel the biting cold wind outside, and there is really a big gap between the temperature here and the outside.

Zhao Tuo found some charcoal, lit a fire, and boiled water on the fire, the water boiled, and the inside of the igloo became very warm, but there was no trace of it about to melt.

Ashina Simo saw it all in his eyes, it was really breathtaking, and exclaimed: "This is really incredible, how did this be done?" ”

Zhao Tuo looked at him with a look that he had never seen the world, and said, "I told you that you don't understand, so let's do it!" ”

In just a few days, the Ashnasimo tribe was surrounded by a high ice wall, and inside the ice wall were large and small igloos.

At this time, Zhao Tuozheng and Ashina Simo were in the tent, receiving envoys from the Tang Dynasty with him!

However, Zhao Tuo hid behind a barrier and did not directly meet the Tang envoy, at this time Ashina Simo was chatting with the Tang envoy alone.

"Ashina Simo Khan, my Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty has agreed to support you to become a Turkic Khan!"

"But the position of Turkic King, my Emperor may not be able to give it to you, after all, there are too many Turkic tribes in the steppe, and only if you conquer everyone, you are qualified to become a Turkic King!"

Ashina Simo smiled, and secretly mocked himself in his heart, this is clearly provoking me, wanting me and other tribes to kill each other.

However, he didn't expect the Tang Dynasty to make him the Turkic king, so he smiled and said to the Tang envoy: "Then what are you doing this time?" ”

Tang Envoy smiled and said slowly: "I came this time to hope that you, Khan, can sell us more woolen cloth." ”

Ashnasimo shook his head and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid this won't work, I don't have any extra wool left." ”

Zhao Tuo beckoned to this Ashina Simo and motioned for him to come over.

Ashina Simo said to the Tang envoy: "You wait a minute, I have some things to deal with." ”

Tang Envoy nodded, Ashina Simo walked to Zhao Tuo's side, and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhao Tuo whispered in his ear and said something softly.

Ashina Simo returned to the Tang envoy again and said, "Although I don't have any remaining wool to sell to you, I can give you the secret recipe for making wool, but what do you Tang Dynasty emperors plan to exchange for?" ”

The Tang envoy listened to Ashina Simo's words and was overjoyed! He deeply knows that the role of wool in the Tang Dynasty is cheap, large and warm, and its future status is no less than silk.

Tang envoy cautiously asked, "Then I don't know what Khan, what do you want?" ”

Ashnasimo said: "First of all, the Tang Emperor wants to crown me as the king of the Turks. ”

"Secondly, the Tang Emperor wants to send people to teach us Turkic tribes to learn culture, teach us to weave, and produce!"

"In the end, the Tang Dynasty wants to protect my tribe, and when someone threatens my safety, the Tang Dynasty will send troops to protect me."

Tang Envoy listened to Ashina Simo's request, and his eyes popped out. Is this what you are asking for? You don't want to lead the Turkic tribes into the arms of the Tang Dynasty!

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