Chapter 339 Never be a slave
Why don't the boys take the Wu hook and charge Guanshan Fifty States?
The generals of the Tang Dynasty are all hawks. No one is a grass chicken. They practice martial arts since they were young. Everyone yearns for the battlefield and blood since childhood. No one just wants to stay in the prosperous Chang'an and be a dude.
Cheng Chumo did not go to the West Shoucheng City, nor did he go to the Central Shoucheng City. He chose to go to the East Shoucheng City, because the East Shoucheng City is only a few hundred miles away from Jieli Khanting, so going there is a challenge and a meritorious service.
Riding on his horse, Dalang of the Cheng family took five hundred light cavalry, one thousand infantry, and more than five hundred guards from the Cheng family, the Sun family, and the Cui family, and embarked on a journey of eight hundred miles to the east. There are more than two thousand camels and horses.
In the November season, Hetao has been cold for three or nine days this year.
Qin Lang wrapped himself in a leather cloak and saw him off outside the city.
Cheng Chumo's face was full of pride, "Wait for my good news!"
Qin Lang went over and tightened the robe for him, "Don't take the initiative to cause trouble, first set up the stockade, and repair Shengzhou Yulin City by the way, our purpose is to take advantage of this cold winter to control the back cover, and by the way, give Shengzhou also recover."
"I know, I know, if people don't attack me, I won't attack, but if people attack me, I will attack." Cheng Chumo shook the reins and urged the horse to leave.
This team of more than 2,000 people slowly followed behind the red flag of the Tang Dynasty held high by the flag bearer.
Ice plows and sleds, fully loaded with supplies.
One piece of sheepskin robe with outer fur and inner skin, and the special huge cloak, which is a cloak on the body, which can be used as a quilt or a sleeping bag directly when it is untied at night.
This is a team going to pioneer.
Qin Lang wanted to follow.
It is indeed very risky to go eastward for eight hundred miles in this severe cold season, but it is indeed a good opportunity. Taking advantage of Xieli's difficulty in mobilizing now, he seizes the opportunity to set up a stockade and open a border market. It can be fortified into a castle.
After the nail is driven in, it will be difficult for Xieli to pull it out again.
The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, is indeed a very magnificent scene, but trekking in it is not a good feeling.
Fortunately, there are sleds and sledges, which finally allow everyone to move forward in this thick snow.
It was the vast white snow, which made their eyes hurt. Fortunately, Qin Lang had prepared for them a long time ago, prepared a piece of black gauze for each of them, and covered the eyes with black gauze, which could relieve the discomfort of the eyes a little.
Cheng Chumo and his party only need to follow the trail left by Yuchi Baoqi's party. Yuchi Baoqi asked Qin Lang for the position of the Tiande Army Envoy in Zhongshoujiang City, and set off with two thousand people one step ahead of him.
The distance between the two teams is two days.
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In Toyosu Castle.
Six or seven thousand people were scattered out at once, but it was much deserted.
The stores in the city under Shangzhou Fenghui were almost emptied, and the goods replenished from Chang’an hadn’t arrived yet, but the recovered wool, sheepskin, livestock, etc. had already filled the entire Jiuyuan City of Fengzhou.
In the governor's mansion.
Qin Lang is entertaining Qin Guosheng and Qin Minister's uncle and nephew.
These people were originally the masters of the back set, but now it is obvious that Qin Lang, the inspector general, is the master.
Ondol.
Big Kang seats.
Copper hot pot.
In this season when drops of water turn into ice, hot pot is undoubtedly the best, especially when there are fat and tender cattle and sheep here.
The Turkic people, who were used to eating roasted sheep, stewed beef and boiled horse meat, now changed their surnames and became courtiers of the Tang Dynasty. The weather was very cold, Qin Lang had already taken off his purple robe and beam crown, and put on a warm sheepskin coat, moccasin boots and mink fur hat, but Qin Guosheng and Minister Qin were all still wearing purple brocade robes. The room is also warm, otherwise Qin Lang reckoned that these guys would have a good experience of being frozen.
The wine has three rounds, and the food has five flavors.
Qin Lang took out a stack of dealer tickets.
The banknotes issued by Jiade Bank, signed banknotes, can be redeemed upon seeing the token, one hundred.
"According to our previous agreement, this is your share!"
Thick banknotes.
Qin Guosheng's eyes are shining. This half-brother of Yu Sheshe is thick and thick, but he is not as fat as Yu Sheshe, but more robust. He has a shaved head, which looks like a butcher.
"San Lang is too polite, how can the elder brother accept the younger brother's money."
This guy is obviously attracted by money, but he still says that polite words that are fake.
"There is a saying in our Han family, brothers also settle accounts clearly, and one yard is worth one yard. Since it has been agreed before, then I will not be short of what is due to you."
Qin Lang took out another bill to show them as he spoke.
Qin Guosheng glanced back, but he didn't know Chinese characters at all.
Minister Qin can read and write, but he can't understand such a complicated bill.
Both uncle and nephew expressed their complete trust in Qin Lang.
"Count it!"
One hundred cards, one hundred cards.
That's a full ten thousand guan.
Minister Qin handed the thick stack of banknotes to his uncle Ashinazhe.
The bald head hesitated for a while, but he couldn't hold back after all, and clicked on the spot.
One with two, he ordered very seriously.
After a long time, he clicked three times, and finally counted clearly, it was indeed a hundred, and he even opened each one and compared them carefully.
"Saburo, you are so polite."
"This is our previous agreement. I, Qin Lang, have always been a promise-worthy person. Since we are cooperating, we must have mutual benefit and win-win results."
Before Qin Lang made an appointment with Qin Guozhong, asking them to help collect sheepskins, livestock, etc., Qin Lang gave them benefits.
Of course, Qin Lang can not give this benefit, but in order to quickly control the situation in Fengzhou, it is essential to give these local snakes the benefit, which can save a lot of trouble.
Ten thousand pennies is a lot of money, but if it is included in the book as an intermediary fee, it is just a normal cost.
Just like Qin Lang collected taxes for the imperial court here, he collected more than 7,000 yuan, which is also one of the operating costs of the chamber of commerce. He did not exempt these taxes based on his position.
Qin Guosheng handed over the money to his nephew, Minister Qin, for safekeeping.
"Sanlang, I see that you have harvested a lot of furs and livestock now, and they are piling up like a mountain. It's not okay to put them in your hands, right?" Qin Guosheng mentioned on his own initiative.
"There's nothing we can do about it. Our Fengzhou Chamber of Commerce went deep into the grasslands and sent various goods to the herdsmen. We also allowed everyone to make IOUs and installments, so everyone bought and bought one after another. All the goods we brought were sold out. There are indeed a lot of fur animals in exchange, but I am short of manpower now."
There is a shortage of people to wash wool, clean wool, spin wool, scrape skins, dry skins, tan skins, slaughter livestock, etc. There is an extreme shortage of manpower.
Especially there were thousands of officers and soldiers who could work part-time to earn extra money. Now that they are gone, there is even a shortage of manpower.
Fengzhou was the main state of the imperial court in the Sui Dynasty, with a large population of people, but the border wars have raged in recent years, and the border has become even more bitter. At that time, the Wuyuan army generals revolted and later returned to the Tang Dynasty, but they were still occupied by the Turks after all.
Many people in Fengzhou either fled to Lingwu Pass early, or were captured by the Turks as slaves. When Qin Lang entered Fengzhou, there were basically no Han people here, and some were Turkic Han people. slave.
Fur animals, etc., are best processed in Fengzhou once, then transported to Lingwu, rough processed again, and then transported to the customs for further processing.
This is also because the further you go to the customs, the more people there are.
Processing is always inseparable from human hands.
"How about I send some slaves to help."
Short-handed.
It was easy to share ten thousand guan, Qin Guosheng became generous and expressed his willingness to transfer some slaves to help Qin Lang.
"Thank you very much, but in business talk business, I am not short of one or two manpower here, and the things to be done will not be completed in a short time."
Qin Lang took advantage of the situation and made a request.
"According to my observation, Brother Guosheng, in your tribe, many of us Han people are slaves, right?"
As soon as these words came out, Qin Guosheng's face was not natural.
"There are some..."
"Brother, don't be nervous. I also know that there are historical reasons for these Han people to become slaves, so I didn't say that brothers should return them to us for nothing. But..."
"These people are my Han compatriots after all. How can we bear to see them become slaves? Brother, I am willing to pay to buy these slaves, let them return to Fengzhou City, restore their freedom, and become Tang Dynasty's masters again." What do you think, brother?"
Qin Guosheng was surprised.
"This, this, there are a lot of them. The ones under my own name are fine, even if I don't give money, it's okay, but the ones in the hands of other herdsmen are hard to say."
"I will redeem it at the market price!" Qin Lang said with a smile.
He waved.
Another stack of dealer tickets was placed on the table.
"This is 10,000 strings, and I am willing to redeem them at the market price."
Qin Guosheng calculated in his mind that on the grassland, a young and strong Han slave can exchange for two horses, and two horses can be exchanged for 16 pennies in Han merchants. Old and young are not worth much, and young women It is worth a mare, but a young child can only be worth two sheep.
Of course, he knew that selling slaves to Lingzhou Dingyuan in the past was much more valuable. If it can be transported to Chang'an to sell, it will be even more valuable. A young and strong slave might be able to sell for twenty or thirty guan, or even thirty or forty guan.
At this time, the young Minister Qin spoke.
"Why must uncle be so indifferent!"
Qin Lang smiled and said, "You call me Uncle Sheng, so I won't see you, and entrust this matter to you. This ten thousand is just an advance payment, and it will be calculated on the basis of the head and the market price at that time, as much as you want, Make it up if it’s not enough.”
Although Minister Qin is young, this kid has read Hanshu for several years, so he is as shrewd as his father.
Ten thousand guan is there, if it is really said to exchange for all the Han slaves in their tribe, it is definitely not enough according to the market price, even if it is based on the current price of cattle and horses in the tribe, and then converted into Han merchants' money, 10,000 guan will not be enough. not enough.
But Minister Qin is not greedy.
"Uncle, what do you think of this? We accept the ten thousand guan, but we don't want to be greedy for the money, but to compensate the losses of the herdsmen who returned it to the brothers of the Han family. Uncle don't say anything about redemption, and don't say anything If it is not enough to make up for it, the money will be regarded as a reward from the imperial court to our tribe."
All the slaves of the Han family, no matter they were captured from Fengzhou in the past two years, or from the Central Plains in the previous dynasty, or even bought from other places, their uncles and nephews asked all the herdsmen to return them to Qin Lang.
There are tens of thousands of Han slaves in the entire Yushe Department, and 10,000 yuan is really not enough.
Qin Lang was surprised, this Minister Qin is really impressive.
"Hahaha, I didn't expect the minister's nephew to be so loyal. The uncle will report to the imperial court immediately, and ask the Holy One for the minister's nephew, Guosheng brothers and Guochang brothers!"
(end of this chapter)