Piluo Ge looked at Yun Chu blankly and said, "Do you want the heads of Ma Lai'aqu, Pulong, Manlong, and the leader of Black Tooth Village?"
Yun Chu said: "Go and discuss it with your father. To be honest, I regard all the tribes in the southwest as brothers. Since it is a family matter, we will deal with it according to family methods. We should not use weapons if we can.
What I would like to see is to finish these messy things as soon as possible and carry out transactions as soon as possible. I think your father has just unified Nanzhao. At this time, what is needed is rest and recuperation, not a war."
Pi Luoge said: "Are you really willing to trade with us? When I came here, I heard that it was you who gave the order to stop all trade with Nanzhao."
Yun Chu threw a small bag into Pi Luoge's arms and said, "Exchanging a pound of salt for a leopard skin, do you think this is a deal?"
Piluoge opened his small pocket and saw that there was snow-white salt inside. He dipped a little of it with his finger and put it in his mouth and said, "This is fine salt. It's worth changing it for a leopard skin."
Yunchu sighed and said: "You have been deceived for too long. We bought a beautiful leopard skin as a mattress in Chang'an. Those profiteers told us that this leopard is a good thing that can only be caught by warriors in the forest, and there are many more.
In order to capture leopards, people were bitten to death by leopards. Therefore, they said that leopard skins are so precious that we need to exchange them with more salt.
Guess how much salt is needed?"
Pi Luoge said: "Ten pounds?"
Yunchu sighed and waved, and immediately two guards carried a sack of salt and threw it in front of Piluo Pavilion.
Pi Luo Ge jumped up and shouted: "So many?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the guard carried another sack of salt and threw it in front of Piluo Pavilion.
"Ah? This is impossible..."
Yun Chu said: "We used two sacks of salt in exchange for a fine leopard skin and thought we were getting an advantage. Why, do you think salt is very precious?"
Pi Luoge said: "Dig a well, dig a very deep salt well, put up a very high frame, and lower a very long pole to the bottom of the well, and then use an ox to pull the pole up, and there will be nothing under the pole."
If you have salt water, boil the water over high heat to get the precious salt."
Yun Chu said: "The Tang Dynasty was very big, and the methods of obtaining salt were very different. In Shu, salt was made in this way. However, at the seaside, people waited for the seawater to rise and dug trenches to guide the seawater into the salt fields, waiting for the sun to rise.
Salt is obtained by evaporating the water in the salt fields.
In other places, the salt is on the ground, and people only need to put the salt into bags and bring it back for sale.
Therefore, in general, salt in Datang is not expensive.
You see, we don’t know the real needs of the people of Nanzhao because we have too few contacts.
Speaking of which, a certain family didn’t know until now that you don’t even have a pot for cooking, not enough linen, and you don’t even have shoes.”
Yun Chu said and glanced at Piluoge's bare feet with pity.
Pi Luoge wanted to hide his bare feet, but he still said proudly: "Only with bare feet can you walk in the mountains and forests like the wind."
Yun Chu raised his hand, and Li Si brought out a pair of shoes with thousand-layer soles. Yun Chu threw them to Pi Luoge and said, "The weather is getting colder. Put them on. Wearing them will not affect your ability to walk in the forest."
Like flying.
You don’t have a house. If you live in a cave, you say you don’t need a house. You don’t know how to grow food, so you say there is food in the forest and there is no need to farm. You have no clothes to wear, so you say animal skins are better. Now, you don’t even have shoes.
It can be said that it affects your walking speed.
Pi Luo Ge, you are a smart child, is it really okay to continue like this?
People are more likely to get sick if they live with pigs for warmth, children cannot grow taller if they don't have enough to eat, women cannot have children and grandchildren easily if they don't have a warm house, and old people cannot live long if they suffer too much.
The people of Nanzhao have been living in the forest for many, many years. Your life in the forest has almost as long a history as ours in the plains. However, there are only a few of you. How many people are there in the Tang Dynasty now?
Speaking of which, it's because you don't know how to build warm houses and don't have the materials to weave cloth. You have to fight all kinds of beasts and poisonous insects in the forest, while people on the plains don't use them at all. Things like wolves are almost extinct near Chang'an.
, beasts like Flower Bears now live freely in Chang'an City, and both adults and children can knead and play with them.
Since you know what I want, just send them here. I won't kill them. I will send them directly to Luoyang and let them tell the reasons why they want to resist in front of the emperor.
I think, having said that, His Majesty the Emperor has no reason to kill them, and maybe they can live in the prosperous Luoyang from now on.
Go to Pi Luo Ge, I know your father and his friends are in the mountains and forests far from Chengdu, tell him not to be so nervous, I don’t want to fight, just send the people I want, and we will start trading immediately."
Pi Luoge lowered his head and said, "I know this is your plan, but I will still tell my father what you said."
Yun Chu sighed and said: "If your father wants to kill you because you came back alive, just tell him that I want to talk to him face to face. I also want to ask him if he really has the strength to become the Tang Dynasty."
Enemy?"
Zhang Donghai took Pi Luoge to visit the entire Datang military camp. He also showed him the crowded market and the piled goods yard before sending Pi Luoge back.
When Zhang Donghai saw that Pi Luoge and his people were walking away, he returned to Yun Chu and whispered: "Will they send the enemies we need?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "No."
Zhang Donghai said again: "Commander, do you think they will come to attack us and rob the supplies here?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "No way."
Zhang Donghai said: "Then, wouldn't it be a pity for the commander to let Pi Luoge go?"
Yunchu stopped the brush in his hand, grabbed the female elephant's ears as big as cattail leaf fans, and said: "I think Sheng Luopi might pretend to send those warriors over, so that these people can find opportunities to create disturbances in our camp, and then
, he will then lead his army over the mountains to sneak attack on us."
Zhang Donghai was stunned for a moment and said: "Why?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "Because what I saw and mentioned to Piluo Pavilion is very suitable for this strategy."
Zhang Donghai said: "What if they don't come?"
Yun Chu spread his hands and said, "It's up to people to plan things, and it's up to God to make things happen. If they don't come, we won't lose anything, right?"
Zhang Donghai said: "If they all come, will the commander spare their lives and send them to Luoyang?"
Yun Chu said: "If they are so stupid, it will be meaningless to save their lives. When the time comes, the right way is to pickle their heads with lime and send them to Luoyang."
Zhang Donghai said in a low voice: "Why do you think this Piluo Ge seems to be an ambitious man? He came to see the commander, maybe he came to find out what we are and what we are."
Yun Chu laughed loudly and said: "Most of the heroes in the wilderness like to take risks. Since you have seen through it, give some face to their children. When they come secretly to burn our supplies and food, don't let him get off the stage. This child
I like it very much and it will be of great use in the future.”
"When does the commander think he will come?"
Yun Chu said: "At the beginning of the month, not to mention there is no moon at that time, the weather is cold, and the northwest wind is coming. It should be a very suitable day to set fire."
A smile appeared on Zhang Donghai's face and he said, "Preparations will begin tonight."
Yun Chu waved his hand and said: "Go ahead, remember, you have to leave a few people alive to see Pi Luo Ge's embarrassment."
Zhang Donghai smiled and agreed and left.
During dinner, Yun Chu and Li Si were the only ones left in the military tent.
Li Si had no intention of eating. A good bowl of noodles was turned into a paste by her chopsticks.
"Yunjin and the others have planned to raid Wenshu Monastery tonight?"
Li Si said casually: "Yes, tonight, I heard news from Zhou Xing that the people in Wenshu Monastery are not easy to mess with, and there are some monks who are like dead men, they are very fierce."
Yun Chu said indifferently: "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. If Wenshu Monastery has dared to fight Buddhism on its own for many years, it must have some capital."
Li Si continued to poke the noodles with chopsticks and said, "I'm worried there will be casualties."
Yun Chu was silent for a moment and said: "For now, the task they face is not difficult. If they die in this low-intensity, low-level competition, it will be their lives."
Li Si asked anxiously: "Aye isn't worried about Mei Yu'er at all?"
Yun Chu said: "Worrying, but he has to do things, or does it mean that as long as I worry, he doesn't have to do anything?"
After that, seeing that Li Si really had no intention of eating, he poured the paste from her bowl into his own rice bowl and ate it while snoring. Although he had mysophobia, he was not interested in eating Li Si's leftovers.
There was no discomfort at all, just because Li Si had eaten it countless times since he was a child.
That night, Yunchu still worked late.
Except for the sound of splashing water coming from Feiyuzui in Dujiangyan, the military camp was surprisingly quiet.
Yun Jin covered her face with a black gauze, squatting on a pine tree outside Wenshu Monastery, carefully overlooking Wenshu Monastery at her feet.
After a whole day of hustle and bustle, the people in Wenshu Monastery were also exhausted. Except for the ever-bright lamp in the Buddhist hall, which was still shining with dim light, there were only a few lights in the rest of Wenshu Monastery.
Li Chengxiu and the others have already drilled two large rows of holes in the north courtyard wall, and the ropes have been tied. As soon as Yun Jin gives the order, the horses outside the courtyard wall will pull down the courtyard wall with all their strength.
The monks holding long-handled and broad-bladed swords stood guard on both sides of the north wall, waiting for the courtyard wall to collapse before rushing in.
The moonlight fell on the green bald heads of the monks, reflecting an iron-like cold light.
The fat Zen Master Duhai sat cross-legged at the foot of the pine tree that Yun Jin climbed up, seeming to be reciting sutras.
Just as the moon was about to set, a deep night owl call suddenly sounded.