Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Wave of War Dividends The political choice is actually very simple, there is no right or wrong, only a criterion for judging whether it is beneficial to himself.
Tiexinyuan is doing things in strict adherence to this principle.
A cloud is very pitiful now, really pitiful, if it is chosen according to moral principles, Tie Xinyuan should let go of a cloud and let him go to save his son and do justice for himself.
It's a pity that there are too many variables to let go of a cloud, in case this guy wants to win over his old department after doing his own thing, then the poor thing will no longer be a cloud, but Qingxiang Valley.
That jade seal is really a good thing, it has its own ink storage function, it's really amazing, Tie Xinyuan printed more than three hundred wolf totems on a very large piece of paper, and the jade seal gradually returned to an almost transparent white.
Yu Chilei almost coveted this jade seal.
He very much wanted to re-engrave the jade seal, and sneered at the roaring giant wolf on the jade seal to the extreme.
He thinks it's a waste of treasure!
This jade seal naturally can't be handed over to Yu Chilei for a second artistic creation now, unless all the horse thieves in the Western Regions can be brought under his banner, and it is possible to give it to him to make Tie Xinyuan's private seal.
A big incident happened in Hami recently, on the days when the mountains were covered by heavy snow, even the antelopes could not cross the Tianshan Road, and a caravan came over.
After Tie Xinyuan learned the news, he immediately sent Tie Liu to take people to the Tianshan Road outpost.
He himself and Meng Yuanzhi also arrived in Hami as soon as possible, ready to personally ask the leader of the caravan how they had crossed the snow-capped Tianshan Mountain, not to mention that the leader of the caravan had repeatedly asked to see the city lord of Hami himself, saying that there was something important to report.
After Tie Xinyuan saw the caravan, his mood was much better.
The fourteen people in front of them were basically unmanned, not only were they severely frostbitten, but they also didn't have a single livestock, and they didn't see a single cargo.
Tie Xinyuan has no doubt about the potential of people, and in later generations, people have regarded climbing the world's highest peak as a leisure activity, and these people have climbed the Tianshan Mountain, which is not very high, but it is nothing.
Where there's a will, there's a way, and that's what I'm talking about.
When Tie Xinyuan came in, a bearded businessman with a dark face hurriedly got up and gave a salute.
Looking at the hand he clasped in his heart, Tie Xinyuan couldn't bear to look at it again.
The fingers as thick as five carrots were dark and shiny, and there were still yellow bodily fluids left between the fingers.
Such five fingers can't be saved no matter what.
"Who are you?
Where did it come from?
Why take the risk of crossing the Tien Shan Mountains to Hami?
It's not a good time to do business. ” The bearded merchant said respectfully: "Your Majesty, great and benevolent city lord, humble Darba greets you, an unprecedented war is taking place on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains, countless city-states have been reduced to ashes in the flames of war, and countless people have been consumed by the flames of war.
My people have no food, no clothes, we don't even have anything, they are hungry and cold waiting for us to bring food and supplies back. ” Tie Xinyuan was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Couldn't the great Uighur Khan protect his people?
He is so powerful that all enemies will be torn to shreds by his powerful samurai. ” The bearded merchant shook his head bitterly and said, "We all thought that the Qarakhanid army would attack in the spring.
No one thought that the Qarakhanid had sent troops in the cold winter, and now it has swept through most of the Uighurs, and our Uighur Khan is still hiding in the warm dragon city to escape the bitter cold of winter. ” Hearing Shang Jia say this, Tie Xinyuan immediately understood what the Uighur Khan was planning.
He was deliberately letting the Qarakhanids' army drive straight in.
It's winter, there's nothing on the land, and a powerful army comes from afar, and his supply becomes the most lethal problem.
The loss of some city-states was not a big problem for the Uighur Khan, and as long as his royal tent army remained, he could regain a piece of land anywhere.
Let the people who want to protect their food go and fight the Qarakhanid armed to the teeth first, and hold back the Qarakhanid army.
When the vigor of this army is exhausted and the food and grass are scarce, he will attack again and achieve all the success in one battle!
Such arrangements are common, it's just that - it's the people who are unlucky!
Long ago, the establishment of the Uighur state was only formed by the gathering of a group of rogue bandits.
The biggest trouble and drawback of the founding of the country is actually the nature of the rogues in their bones.
They don't care about the gains and losses of a city or a place, let alone the life and death of the people, and it is their common trick to preserve their strength and wait for the opportunity.
In many cases, such tricks can indeed serve the purpose of dragging down the enemy, but the cost is a bit large.
For them, the people are a target for tax collection, and if one group dies, another group of tax targets will appear.
They think they are high up, they have everything if they have force, they only want to get something from the people, and they have absolutely no idea of reciprocating them.
No wonder there is an old saying called - Hu people have no national fortune for a hundred years.
It is no wonder that such a country will disappear into the long river of history without a trace, and once their army suffers a defeat, the country will also disappear.
Tie Xinyuan, who had figured out these truths in an instant, smiled and said to the merchant leader: "We have all the grain, cloth, salt, dried meat, cattle and sheep you want, but ah, what do you exchange for?"
Even if your exchange is successful, how can you cross the Tianshan Mountains and return to your people?
After all, it was already so difficult for you to come here. ” Darba ripped off the tattered fur on his body, and Tie Xinyuan saw a beautiful jade robe.
This is a jade garment woven from white jade pieces, connected by gold threads in the middle, just look at those shining white jade pieces, you know that this thing is absolutely valuable.
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The golden jade clothes are a distant legend for Tie Xinyuan, and when he first visited the Han Tomb in Xuzhou, he saw it through the glass cover, but he didn't know the authenticity of that thing.
Now that he saw the real golden jade clothes, Tie Xinyuan understood the luxury of this thing, since the shirt was worn on this person's body, that, the jade clothes in the rest of the positions should be on the bodies of the rest of the people.
Sure enough, the rest of the servants untied the rest of the jade clothes from their bodies one after another, and after a while, they formed a beautiful golden jade robe on the big kang.
When all the golden jade clothes were placed, the dead gray face of Darba, who was about to die, seemed to have brilliance, and he pointed to the golden jade clothes on the earthen kang and said: "Your Majesty, the respected city lord, this is the golden jade clothes, the emperor of the Han Kingdom wanted such a thing, but it was impossible to meet it."
Now, we offer you this golden jade garment, made of four thousand four hundred and twenty-eight pieces of the finest Kunlun white jade, that you will give us some food and salt, so that we may feed my people when we return. ” Although this thing is just a thing for a dead man, his exquisite shape and extremely precious value still make Tie Xinyuan unable to refuse.
"Darba, I accept your gift, and I will reward you with fifty camels, each of which will have on it the food and salt you desperately need.
As a reward, I will give you another hundred pieces of cotton cloth, if you can take them. ” Darba and his people were overjoyed, and bowed down again: "My merciful city lord, on behalf of my Yukun clan, Darba once again thanks you for your kindness and generosity, from now on, the Yukun clan will be your Qingxiang clan's most loyal friend." ” Tie Xinyuan smiled: "Friendship has always been mutual, there is too much wind and sand on the Gobi, we really need to help each other to reach the oasis on the horizon."
I will cherish this friendship from the Yukun tribe.
I've heard that the Yukun people are very famous jade craftsmen, but it's a pity that you Darba will never be able to carve your favorite jade in the future.
Your finger needs to be removed as soon as possible, otherwise it will affect your life. ” "Thank you for your kindness, I will deal with these injuries these days, as long as the Tianshan Road can be walked, I will leave as soon as possible."
Tie Xinyuan just smiled, and assigned Yu Chi Zhuozhuo to stay behind to arrange a reward for Darba, and asked Wei Chi Zhuozhuo to make a complete record of the battle situation on the other side of the Tianshan Mountain that Darba knew.
Ga Ga and Yu Chiwen carefully put the golden jade clothes into a wooden box, and then left with Tie Xinyuan and Meng Yuanzhi.
On the way back to Qingxiang City, Meng Yuanzhi kept staring at the wooden box.
Tie Xinyuan smiled: "If you like it, take it, I don't like this thing, I advise you not to like this thing."
In the future, once you die in battle, it is best to wear a horse leather shroud, once you wear this thing and bury it, God knows if it will be stolen by tomb robbers, and at that time you can't even want a complete corpse. ” Meng Yuanzhi shook his head and said: "When you go to the Khitan, you should bring this thing, you and I don't like it, but those princes regard this thing as extremely important, the nobles of the Great Song Dynasty are like this, and the nobles of the Khitan must be the same." ” "There was a fight on the other side of the mountain, and it was a good time for us to get rich, and this year the format was much better than I expected.
If it weren't for the fact that going to the Khitan and the Great Song Dynasty was too important, I would have wanted to stay and see for myself which direction the situation would take here. ” Meng Yuanzhi said to Tie Xinyuan seriously: "The biggest threat to us is still the Khitans, and only by forming a good alliance with the Khitans can you expand our empire in the Gobi unscrupulously." ” Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "For me, going to the Great Song Dynasty to rescue my sweetheart is the most important thing, as for the Khitan, it is enough to fight a fierce battle." ”