"Here, you gave this to me? No charge? Did I hear it right?"
The Turkic young man's eyes widened in shock, staring at the caravan man in front of him with disbelief!
To be honest, although he had accepted many gifts from the caravan man in front of him before.
But those are just worthless gadgets after all! What he is holding now is a huge gift worth a hundred cows! How can he not be shocked by this?
"Hahaha..." The caravan man grinned, patted the young man's shoulder vigorously, and said boldly: "Did you hear that right? Our Lord Marquis once said: Flowers bloom again, and people no longer bloom.
Boy! This kind of good thing is the most precious only at your age! Take it and pursue your love!"
"Uh, oh, okay..."
After listening to the man's words, the young man on the grassland ran away in despair, holding the perfume in his hands. He even forgot to hold the horse that was grazing leisurely on the side, and just ran towards the tribe on two legs.
"Hey... let's go, let's go too, Xiao Wu, lead the horse!"
After the young man left, the smile on the man's face faded, and he put on a serious look again. He waved his hand violently behind him, and the caravan continued to move forward!
The words of the man and the grassland young man were all heard by Tang Jian, but the charming old fox remained silent. Only after the young man left, he looked at his back thoughtfully.
Following the gentle slope, the caravan quickly entered this grassland tribe, and not surprisingly received a great welcome!
The tribal leader, the young man's father, limped out of the middle tent, opened his arms to welcome the man, and then the two of them hugged each other heavily like a pair of close friends in front of everyone.
Tang Jian followed the man from the caravan, and his keen eyes had discovered that there was obviously a long knife wound on the leader's leg. It was very deep and heavy! He probably even cut the tendon.
Moreover, judging from the painful expression he showed from time to time while walking, this wound will not appear for too long!
If it is not because of the conflict between tribes, then the most likely reason is that he was injured when the Turks harassed Hexi recently!
"It's strange, how can a disabled person still be the leader of a clan?"
Just when Tang Jian was stroking his beard and making secret calculations in his mind.
Behind, the Xiao family caravan has unloaded the cart and laid out all the goods inside.
The goods brought by the Xiao family caravan this time are very miscellaneous, from various iron pots and shovels, to silk, linen, to gold and silver accessories, combs and bronze mirrors, there is literally everything you need!
And unlike other caravans walking on the grassland, they also carry something that no one else has, tea bricks!
brick tea!
Like perfume, this thing is a new thing and has never appeared before.
Since the Xiao family caravan brought it to the grassland two years ago and taught the Turks how to make butter tea and salty milk tea.
Those Turkic people who eat meat and drink milk every day immediately fell in love with this magical drink that can relieve greasiness!
Moreover, many Turkic people were surprised to find that after drinking tea, their hidden diseases were cured without medicine! Their appetite was also much better, and even their energy was no longer as groggy as before, but
Become refreshed!
Therefore, since the appearance of this thing called "tea", it has spread among the Turkic people in an instant!
Even later there were rumors that it was possible to go without food for three days but not drink tea for three days on the grassland!
For a time, the popularity of tea was infinitely greater than that of perfume!
After all, perfume is expensive and basically only nobles can afford it!
Although the price of tea is not cheap, it can still be afforded by Turkic people who live a slightly better life!
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In the open space in front of the Turkic tribe, the Xiao family caravan, which had dozens of large vehicles, only opened a few vehicles, which made the people in this tribe ecstatic.
The Turks who ran out of each tent squatted in front of the car and concentrated on selecting the products they liked. After selecting, the caravan clerk would tell them a number with a smile.
"Hey, why is it so expensive again? Last time I didn't return two pieces of cowhide and ten kilograms of beef tendon. Why did you change it to three pieces of cowhide and fifteen kilograms of beef tendon this time?"
After hearing the price, a Turkic man with a clean shaven head, leaving only a ring of hair on the sides, grabbed a brick of tea and yelled at the waiter.
"That's right! Why is the price so high this time!" Next to him, a middle-aged Turkic man's face also wrinkled like a bitter melon.
A Turkic woman looked at all the carts and couldn't help complaining: "The price is as high as possible. Why is the quality of the goods not as good as last time? Salt? There is no salt this time!"
"Hey! A small package of spices requires twenty horns? Do we think our cows have ten horns on each head?" The Turkic girl in a gray cloth skirt widened her eyes.
Facing the noisy and questioning Turkic people in front of me.
The few clerks sitting behind the goods were still smiling. Even if the spitting stars were sprayed on their faces, they were not angry, and they were quite calm about it.
"Haha, forgive me, guest! It's all because of the recent unrest. You Turks frequently attacked us in the Tang Dynasty in the autumn, causing all our border towns to close their doors! Now when we go out of the city, we have to pay twice as much as before.
!Because we are friends, we have only slightly increased by half. If it were another tribe, it would have doubled!"
"It can't be so expensive! Besides, this year is different from previous years. We went to the border town with great effort, but in the end we didn't even see a hair, and we were greeted by your city defenders with bows, arrows and slings...
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"And our clan leader, as well as Batu and Muren, were all injured by you Tang people!"
"My men and even their horses were shot to death by you!"
The guy smiled and said the words he had prepared before, but the result was not good.
Not only did the Turks who gathered around us not understand, but they became even more noisy!
Some big men even rolled up their arms and sleeves, ready to fight if they disagreed!
Tang Jian stood not far away and saw this scene and could only shake his head slowly.
It’s hard to imagine that there are people in the world who can say so confidently about going to other people’s homes and robbing other people’s things! Even if they suffer losses, they will be blamed on others!
Perhaps, hundreds of years of robbery habits have been passed down, and they have long regarded robbing the Tang people as their natural destiny!
And it was natural for the Tang people to be robbed by them!
The humility and hospitality of those grassland people of later generations are not experienced at all by the Turks of today! The Turks of today are only cold-blooded and cruel at their core!
Perhaps as the famous saying goes:
It was only after the invention of Gatling that the grassland people began to become good at singing and dancing!
