Benjamin Goldberg's head is full of beautiful mountains and rivers, full of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

During his travels, he often stayed with local Tibetans, which was better than sucking in wind and dew outside.

Although his hands-on ability is not good and he seems clumsy, he has a lot of ghost ideas in food, clothing, housing and transportation, which is quite rare.

The more you have seen, the more you understand the meaning of this white tent.

Damn, it's easy to live in, and it's hard to come out, and I have to leave for at least three years to work.

Seeing that he insisted on not progressing, Ram was a little disappointed.

The local people live half immersed in the world, half supported by the concept of reincarnation, and do not suffer from life worries like the Han people.

Ram's disappointment came and went quickly, and he instantly put on a smile again, and dragged Benjamin Goldberg to the smaller, dirtier tent.

The two little milk dogs were joking and trying to follow in.

But they were taken back by the dry rice one by one, and roared in a low voice, and the two little milk dogs looked at the tent, and then looked at the dry rice, turned their heads and went to the white tent with the dry rice.

In the small, dirty tent, Benjamin Goldberg shouted: "Stop, this is my first time......"

Immediately, the sound was annihilated in the cold wind.

The sound was staccato and undulating, and the silence soon came again, and the night did not subside.

The next day, Benjamin Goldberg walked out of the tent with a depressed expression.

Ram, who is radiant, is busy with everything.

Just as he was about to pull out the tent and drive the sheep to graze, he saw a fast horse galloping in the distance.

A red-faced man dismounted and yelled and said a few words to Ram's father, and Ram's family turned miserable.

Benjamin Goldberg yawned, drank milk tea, and ate the glutinous rice dumplings that he was tired of.

He grabbed Ram and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Ram said worriedly: "The Kashag has launched an army to resist the new Han minister in Tibet, and the Kashag army will take away the cattle and sheep of our herdsmen......

"Then let's run away?"

"There are too many cattle and sheep to run away."

Benjamin Goldberg followed the example of Zhao Chuanxin, holding his chest with one hand and rubbing his chin with the other, and asked after a moment of thought: "Ram, that man, is he here to inform you?" ”

Ram shook his head: "He wants to exchange the furs for our cattle and sheep because his flock has been taken away by the Kashag army. But Abba didn't agree. ”

Benjamin Goldberg saw that the man had not left, and hurriedly removed the scroll from his back.

It was a complete map, with several routes marked in particular detail, and Benjamin Goldberg even made a lot of notes on the routes he had taken.

He glanced at the map, crossed the route with his fingers, secretly estimated the time, put away the scroll and stared at Ram with blazing eyes and asked, "Ram, I have a way, are you willing to believe me?" ”

Changing to someone else, I thought about it carefully, but Ram nodded: "I believe in you." ”

"......" Benjamin Goldberg said in his heart what kind of folk customs must be simple in order to trust strangers after a sleep?

He inherited Zhao Chuanxin's personality - if Ram thinks too much, Ram trusts him, and he wants to help to the end.

He yawned and said palely, "O Ram, I will make you the Lobsang Dolma of this land. ”

Zhao Erfeng is notoriously hardliner.

He became the minister in Tibet, and the people of the Kashag were terrified.

On the Kashag side, in the name of suppressing bandits, they mobilized the Tibetan army to Qamdo, in fact, they wanted to resist by force.

No matter how much the motives are whitewashed, this is already a blatant rebellion.

In this era, it was difficult to replenish, especially in the Tibetan areas where the plateau was dotted, and the chickens and dogs jumped along the way through which the army passed.

Many herders' cattle and sheep were looted, leaving only their furs.

Cattle and sheep are the foundation of the herdsmen's survival, and the herdsmen are in a hurry and are willing to take out the accumulated fur for cattle and sheep, and the price is outrageously low.

Others are reluctant to change at this time.

Benjamin Goldberg used the Ram's cattle and sheep and his own savings to buy furs and specialties in large quantities.

And let Ram say to everyone, "Tashi Delek." ”

Ram, who is accustomed to a nomadic life, can't help but panic as he sees his flock of sheep withering.

Benjamin Goldberg said to her, "Ram, you have to laugh, only Lobsang Dolma's smile reassures herders." ”

At the price of scrap, Benjamin Goldberg harvested not only furs, but also some gold and silver jewelry taken from strings of beads.

In the end, the yaks that became the boat of the plateau were almost unable to carry them, so they gave up.

The herdsmen who came to exchange cattle and sheep also folded their hands and bowed down to thank the selfless Lobsang Dolma for helping them through the difficult time, holding the 108 rosaries that had lost their precious accessories.

Benjamin Goldberg often took out the scroll and compared it with the route and the annotations.

Ram couldn't understand it and asked, "Nanga Bhava, why do you keep looking at this?" ”

Nanga Bhava is Ram's affectionate name for Benjamin Goldberg, and it is not a name, it is a nickname.

Because Benjamin Goldberg's surname, the original English name was Goldberg.

Benjamin Goldberg's interpretation is that Gold means gold and Berg means mountain, which together is "mountain of gold".

In Tibet, there is a peak called Nanga Bhava, and if you stand in the right place, at the right time, and the sun shines down, that mountain will turn into a golden mountain.

Nanga Bhava, which translates to a war spear that pierces the blue sky.

Benjamin Goldberg pointed to the map and explained: "Before I left for the west, I made preparations for half a month without telling my master. I drew a map, inquired about the route and folk customs, and found out where the Central Plains and foreign merchants were. Ram, you see, there are English merchants here, Russian merchants to the north, and to the east, here, a northwestern camel caravan called Malin must pass. And Naqu has bigger pastures...... Ram, do you know what that means? ”

In Hankow, there was a time when Benjamin Goldberg left early and returned late, and Zhao Chuanxin wondered what he was busy with. In fact, he began to prepare for the westward journey at that time.

Ram didn't know anything about business, so he shook his head in confusion: "I don't know." ”

Benjamin Goldberg had to patiently break it up and crumple it and explain: "We can sell the furs along the way, go to the pastoral area to buy cattle and sheep, and drive them back to continue to exchange the furs." Zhao Erfeng will have an easy time fighting the Kasha, but at least he will not officially start the war until at least next year. During this period, we can go back and forth many times, so that you can become Lobsang Dolma, and also make your family's flock expand dozens of times......"

Ram's eyes widened in surprise: "Nanga Bhava, is this really possible?" Merchants are cunning, the flock is too big, what if we miscalculate? ”

The Ram family couldn't read a few big characters combined, let alone math, and they couldn't break more than ten fingers.

"Isn't there still me?"

So, Ram happily hugged Benjamin Goldberg: "My Nanga Bhava, you are amazing. ”

"Ram, let's take a shower tonight......" Benjamin Goldberg was about to choke.

Benjamin Goldberg was originally a handsome young man, but now he is in shape.

He defined himself as a dog-headed military advisor, but the Ram family regarded him as an iron-clad son-in-law.

Everywhere fur was sold, Benjamin Goldberg was in charge, bargaining, settling accounts, and the fur specialty became money.

Benjamin Goldberg doesn't take money, and no one wants to fool him.

Foreigners see that he is fluent in Chinese, Tibetan, and English, and talks about astronomy and geography, as if he knows everything, and he is very young. Someone wanted to recruit him, someone proposed to take him to study abroad, someone ...... In short, Ram was scared enough, for fear that the backbone of the Lord would be tempted away by the cunning foreign businessman.

It wasn't until all the furs were exchanged for money, and after they were exchanged for countless cattle and sheep in Naqu, that the Ram family really pressed their hearts back into their stomachs.

Ram happily sang an unknown song and drove the cattle and sheep back.

Benjamin Goldberg beckoned to the two milk dogs behind him, who had grown up a lot: "Gesang, Suba, hurry up." ”

Gesang is the smart daughter of Ganfan, and Suba is the stupid and naughty son of Ganfan.

Two dogs, now they have become qualified sheepdogs.

The names are all given by Ram, Gesang means "wishful jewel", and Suba is a Tibetan medicine.

Hearing the call, Gesang ran to the front and brought back the scattered sheep.

Suba, on the other hand, was amused, looking at Benjamin Goldberg stupidly.

It wasn't until Ganfan let out a low roar that it spread its four legs and flew after it.

In the evening, Benjamin Goldberg roasts a leg of lamb around a campfire.

Gan Fan, Gesang and Suba, who were lying next to them, suddenly raised their heads and looked in a certain direction vigilantly.

Immediately, a distant wolf howl sounded.

Ram's face changed slightly: "It's not good, we must have been targeted by wolves during the day." ”

Benjamin Goldberg put the leg of lamb aside: "It's okay, let's go and tell them who is the real owner of this land......"

(End of chapter)