Chapter 122 Turmoil After all, Hami is deep and wild, and neither the Great Song nor the Seljuks can reach Hami.
Since the Uighurs had been defeated by the Qarakhanid and had fled north, Tie Xinyuan was skeptical that they would be able to survive the winter.
It is also because of the geography that the Qarakhanid will not venture eastward without sufficient preparation, after all, the time to take Hami with the least consumption with strange troops has passed.
The newly occupied Uighur lands were thousands of miles long, and this was only an occupation, and the Qarakhanid still had a lot to do to stabilize the territory once and for all.
It's not that if you defeat a king, the king's land will become your territory, and if there are no officials to govern it, and you don't receive enough benefits from this land, it can only be a horse thief-style plunder.
Today, the north of the Tianshan Mountains is full of horse thieves!
This is not an exaggeration.
Without the Uighur king, and with the Qarakhanid army in Maodong, there were countless horse thieves north of the Tien Shan Mountains overnight.
A large part of these horse thieves were actually former subordinates of the Uighur king, who, after the defeat of the Uighur king, went their own way and divided their territories and became emperors.
When the merchants marched eastward with the last north wind and prepared to start a new round of trade, they found that the north of the Tianshan Mountains had become a real battlefield of flesh and blood.
The new horse thieves are hungry wolves with green eyes who don't care about the future development of the country, as long as they encounter a caravan, they will rush forward in a swarm until the caravan is completely eaten with people and goods.
The caravans that stayed in Hami for the winter were terrified.
It is conceivable that once they returned with a full caravan through the Tianshan Mountains, the first thing they would have to face was the overwhelming number of horse thieves.
So, they naturally thought of the Hami Mansion.
Tie Xinyuan has no way to deal with such a document, he led the troops into the Tianshan North Road last autumn to raise food, if it weren't for this reason, he would not have stepped into the Tianshan North Road for five years.
If a force wants to rise in the Western Regions, robbery is a topic that cannot be avoided, because this is the fastest way, and Tie Xinyuan also did this, his Hami Kingdom is actually built on the bones of Shang Jia, and the nutrients needed are extracted from their bones, which can support him until he takes down a cloud, and finally sinks to the bottom to complete the ultimate goal of self-sufficiency.
If you want to develop step by step and finally build a country, such a thing cannot happen in the Western Regions at all, if you don't rob others, others will rob you.
The better you develop, the more horse thieves will covet you.
Unless you quickly become strong from the start, so that everyone is afraid of you and does not dare to rob you.
Mercenaries are now a formidable force in Hami.
Since the Iron Four was sent to manage the mercenaries, the organization belonging to the mercenaries was naturally established, and the mercenary union now has at least more than 4,000 mercenaries in its hands, making it the second largest military force in the Hami Kingdom.
The merchants also like to recruit guards from the mercenary guilds, at least, the ones recruited from here will not kill them halfway and steal their goods.
When the news that a hundred and ten caravans had hired three thousand mercenaries at one time reached Tie Xinyuan's ears, it still made him frown.
Since Zhao Wan lived in the wolf's den, he rarely left here, and today, it is obviously impossible not to go out.
The sunny side of the snow left by the last heavy snowfall has melted, and only the Sanyin area has not melted.
The Hami River has been completely thawed, and now the Hami River is full of millstone-sized ice, and the boat is still a little dangerous, and those flat-bottomed boats with shallow draft naturally dare not enter the river at this time, and only those sturdy canoes come and go on the river.
The river thawed, and the Hami ferry, which had been silent for a winter, seemed to come to life again, with crowds surging and mountains of goods piled up on the wharf.
These goods are all agricultural tools and selected grains produced in Hami and Qingxiang City, and as long as the ice on the river disappears, they will be the first government goods to go downstream.
Lei Heng, the inspector of Hami Ferry, got down from the canoe, and a green-robed official standing by the river hurriedly asked, "How?"
” Lei Heng shook his head and said: "Li County's order, it still can't be done, when I was in the river, I saw that there are more ice cubes the size of a grinding plate, basically two feet thick, and if your cargo ship wants to leave, it will have to wait at least five days." ” Li Xianling stomped his feet and said: "Huyang County came early this spring, and when I came, the grass on the sunny slope was already rising. ” Lei Heng said angrily: "Li County Order, you can see clearly, this is not a man-made disaster, but a natural disaster, what is the matter with the ice not melting our river?"
There are some things you may not know, if these drift ice do not melt at Hongliupo in Mingyuan County, the water flow is slow, and if the ice cubes accumulate there, it will be a disaster.
Yesterday, Lao Liang took the soldiers of the firearms battalion to Hongliupo, just to beware of the ice dam there.
If you really can't wait, just go overland. “ Li Xianling arched his hand irritably: "I lost my words just now, it's no wonder that Lei Patrol is not to blame, there are too many materials that need to be transported to Huyang County this time, and the loss of land transportation is too great, since I have to wait, I will wait a little longer." ” After sending away Li County's order, Lei Inspector looked at the river and sighed, the ice does not melt, he has no way at all.
At the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the weather changes three times a day is considered good, Huyang County is located in the Gobi, as long as the sun is violently basking for a few days, the temperature will soon rise, and the Tianshan Road is still tightly stuffed by ice and snow, and the road is not passable.
The cold ice here is all flowing from the Black Mountain Basin, and those who know it will not blame the river officials, and those who don't know will think that the river officials poured ice into the river.
Throwing away his wet boots, he was about to put his feet close to the stove to warm up, and a stout man came to him, and the smell of his pungent feet was missing, and he said in a stumbling Song dialect: "Brother Lei, hurry up and prepare two big ships for my brother."
Straight to Balikun Lake, the boss's deal, but I don't dare to delay. ” Smelling the strong smell of mutton on this guy's body, Lei Heng said angrily: "Prepare your mother's feet, the river is full of ice, don't you see?"
” Dahan happily dropped a leather bag and said: "I like my mother's feet, I will send it to you next month, they are all my own brothers, my business is your business, think of a way." ” Lei Heng looked at the leather pocket and said regretfully: "Damn, ten red copper coins, why haven't I seen you so generous on weekdays?"
” The big man actually sat next to Lei Heng and pushed his shoulders against him and said, "Big business, your share is naturally big." ” Lei Heng smiled bitterly: "I just left a Shangguan, and I also plan to go downstream, what he is going to transport is planting grain and farm tools, and I didn't dare to send a boat to launch such an urgent matter."
If your affairs are really urgent, if you are brave enough to go down in a canoe, Lao Tzu can still do it.
The big ships are now on the shore, Lao Tzu doesn't have the courage to get it for you, if it is damaged by Binglingzi, Lao Tzu's head will be lost. ” Seeing that Lei Heng didn't seem to be shirking, the big man stood up and said vigorously like an old donkey pulling a mill: "How is this good, how is this good!"
” Lei Heng scolded with a smile: "Bald, you fucking don't do a good party bandit, and now you're a businessman." ” Dang Xiang Dahan said with a smile: "Being a bandit only earns a few bucks, if Lao Tzu sends people to Qiuzi this time, five hundred taels of silver will be in hand." ” "Then what are you anxious about, the city of Tianshan Road can't be opened, you flew over from Tianshan Mountain?
Wait well, and in five or six days the ice will be gone, and I will arrange a boat for you. ” Dahan shook his head and sat on the bench helplessly and said, "This time it's not your brother and I have the final say, it's a big action."
More than 140 caravans that were resting in winter were about to leave Qingxiang City, and more than 3,000 brothers were found from the trade union, and they went back and forth, and 50,000 taels of silver were about to go, which was a real big deal.
Liu Man, Liu Boss and Hong Laoqi pulled the poles, and all the errands were ordered, Lao Tzu's errand was to raise military rations, and such a large piece of military rations could only be gathered around Balikun Lake. ” Lei Heng was puzzled: "Hasn't the "Food Restriction Order" been lifted?
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No one has gone to the big canteen in Qingxiang City, how can you not get food in Qingxiang City?
I've heard that the price of food there has fallen three or four times, and it's no different now than the year before. ” The bald hair smiled and said, "Brother, I won't hide it from you here, there is still a difference between the grain in Qingxiang City and the grain in Balikun Lake." ” "Grain, anything else?"
"My brother, the grain in Qingxiang City is either wheat or barley, and most of the grain in Balikun Lake is salted fish, do you know this?"
"You know, Lao Tzu ate salted fish for two months according to the ration, and almost turned into a bat, that thing is grain, it is salt at all......
Alas?
You don't fucking want to sell salted fish as salt in the middle of the river, do you?
” The bald man smiled and said, "Now, brother, are you clear?"
I want two big boats, transport two boats of grain, and exchange salted fish with the people of Balikun County. ” Lei Heng nodded and said: "Yes, the staple food of the Balikun people is salted fish, and after eating it for a big winter, it is estimated that they want to change their taste, and this business is done."
However, more than 3,000 of you must report when you go out of the Tianshan Road, and the General's Mansion will agree to let you go out like this?
You don't even let go of the damn salted fish, can you let go of those horse thieves in the north of the Tianshan Mountains?
” "The big boss Leng Ping and the big leader He Yuanwu have gone to see the general together, there should be no big problem."
Lei Heng was born in the end, shook his head and said: "It's not that easy, the Hami country is no longer the Hami country it used to be."
This winter, Lao Tzu has not been idle at all, gnawing all kinds of laws and regulations for a winter, and we have to talk about the rules in everything from now on.
More than 3,000 mercenaries and more than 2,000 merchants went on the road together, which was no different from a large army going to the border.
It is not as simple as you think to consider all aspects. ”