Changsun Jun knew that the people of Dashi Country were unfaithful and immoral, but he did not expect that the dignified ministers of the Dashi Country would be so renegade and despicable. In the blink of an eye, they would increase their remuneration to three thousand taels of gold... This Isn’t there the slightest trace of propriety, justice and shame in the whole country?
Just like bandits and robbers!
Such despicable and shameless behavior is really unacceptable to him...
However, there is no point in not accepting it. He is in Damascus at the moment. If he rashly refuses Azmi's blackmail, if this guy's anger arises from his heart and his evil becomes bold, he can simply be tied up and imprisoned in prison, and then sent to Chang'an. What should I do if I send a letter to my family asking my father to raise money to redeem his life?
He had never thought that he could easily obtain wealth several times his salary. How could Azmi not think about it?
Since he had thought about it but did not do it, it was definitely not due to conscience or morality, but because of the reasons that made him dare not do it...
Under Azmi's pressure, Changsun Jun had to write another letter, send a personal entourage back to Chang'an, and ask his family to raise three thousand taels of gold to support him outside Yumen Pass.
It's just that three thousand taels of gold is really a large amount. Even if the family is as luxurious and wealthy as the Changsun family, they would still have a hard time raising so much gold in a short period of time. Especially since this "ransom" cannot be known to outsiders. It becomes more and more difficult to make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes...
Changsun Jun simply didn't dare to think about it.
What particularly confused him was Mu'awiya's attitude. The caliph did not speak Chinese at all. He had no way of knowing what he said and relied entirely on Azmi's translation. What should he do if Azmi interfered? ?
After all, even if he no longer cares about Mu'awiya's attitude and only wants to return to Chang'an as soon as possible, it is still a task assigned by his father, so he just came to Damascus in a daze, and then went back in a daze...
Somehow it doesn't make sense.
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Early the next morning, Changsun Jun just woke up and walked out of his bedroom. He saw that all his dead soldiers had been disarmed and driven into the courtyard.
Changsun Jun was immediately furious. He was about to go to Azmi to inquire about it when he saw Azmi coming back from outside wearing a military uniform. When he saw Changsun Jun, he smiled and said: "Young Master, you just woke up at this time? Haha, you are indeed pampered." I, a descendant of an aristocratic family, wonder how you managed to survive the vast Gobi Desert and the vast sea of sand before arriving in Damascus... Let's go, I will accompany you to buy food and replenish fresh water."
Changsun Jun said angrily: "General, why did you disarm all my soldiers? This is a great shame and humiliation!"
The dead soldiers all had angry faces, but they were unarmed and in Damascus, for fear of bringing disaster to their son, but they dared not speak out in anger.
Azmi said with a smile on his face: "Now that you and I have reached an agreement, we should cooperate with each other to make the agreement continue. If these reckless men accidentally cause the cooperative relationship between us to suffer setbacks, wouldn't it be a big disaster? "Don't worry, young master, with the protection of Azmi's bodyguard, you will be safe and sound. You are my God of Wealth. Even if you lose a hair, I will be extremely sad..."
Changsun Jun was so angry that he had nothing to say. He was completely held hostage. It seemed that Azmi would never let him go until he received the "ransom".
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Azmi personally took Chang Sun Jun on a shopping spree in Damascus, buying enough food and water bags.
Changsun Jun warned: "We need to buy more medicinal materials. The medicinal materials I brought have been used up on the way. If you have a headache and a fever, you will be in trouble if you don't have medicine."
Not only himself, but the dead soldiers he led to Damascus this time are all the elites of the Changsun family. Training a dead soldier not only costs a lot of money, but also requires a lot of patience. How can it be easily damaged? On the road?
Azmi suddenly looked disdainful: "You Han people are good at everything, but it's just weird that those grass roots, leaves, and even insects underground can be used to treat diseases? It's ridiculous! Those things look dirty. It’s amazing. If you don’t kill people if you eat it, it’s wrong. How can you cure diseases?”
Changsun Jun was greatly surprised: "Then how do you treat your cannibals when they get sick?"
He himself also felt that the decoctions he needed to drink when he got sick were very torturous, and some were unbearably bitter. As long as he could resist the past illness, he would rather suffer for a few more days than drink the decoctions.
Wouldn't it be better if the cannibal's medicine was more sophisticated?
"Isn't it just a matter of bleeding?"
Under the horrified gaze of Chang Sun Jun, Azmi took out a sharp knife from his arms. His body was covered with magnificent patterns and it was the world-famous Damascus knife. He held the knife in his hand. He gestured on his neck and thighs and said: "Whatever disease you have, you just need to cut the blood vessel in a certain place and bleed it and it will be cured."
Changsun Jun was stunned.
Seeing Zhang Sunjun's "astonished" look on his face, Azmi was immediately very proud: "How troublesome is it to take medicine when you are sick? You Han people are so stupid! Our 'bloodletting therapy' is the best in the world. The most mysterious spell in the world is so complicated that most people can't understand it. Let me tell you this, depending on the patient's age, physique, season, climate, place of residence, etc., the bloodletting methods adopted are also different. Blood vessels in different locations correspond to different organs. For example, the blood vessels in the right hand are connected to the liver, and the blood vessels in the left hand are connected to the spleen. The more serious the condition, the greater the amount of bloodletting."
Then he gestured to his neck with a knife, sighed and said: "The most serious disease requires bleeding on the neck. Cutting this blood vessel can remove all toxins from the body, and the patient will naturally recover without medicine." .However, this magic is too profound, and I did not learn the most essential part. When my father was seriously ill, I cut more than ten blood vessels on his body to bleed them, but it had no effect, so I had to isolate them in the end. The blood vessels in his neck, but after all, the delay was too long and the condition was too serious, so he still could not be revived."
Changsun Jun subconsciously touched his neck and felt the strong beating of the arteries in his neck. This time he was really "shocked" by Azmi!
Mother!
Are you sure your father died of illness and not because you drained all the blood from his body?
Can bloodletting cure disease?
It is simply unheard of, an anecdote for the ages...
Changsun Jun had a subversive and amazing admiration for this magical city and magical capital!
Dirty, barbaric, and ignorant, this is Chang Sun Jun's impression of Damascus. Such a city that has long been famous even in the far east does not match its grand reputation. It is really not as famous as meeting it.
Under Chang Sun Jun's strong request, Azmi took him to the market in the east of the city with an impatient look on his face. He bought some medicinal materials for treating colds and fevers from a Han merchant, and looked at the small pile of green skin. , perilla, licorice, platycodon... Azmi took out his knife again and said with disdain: "You Han people are really weird. You can heal by just cutting it and letting out some blood. Why do you have to eat all this mess? It's really strange. Incomprehensible.”
Changsun Jun suppressed the crazy complaints in his heart and rolled his eyes.
You are unreasonable, and your whole family is unreasonable!
Blood is the essence of the human body. How can the so-called "one drop of essence and ten drops of blood", the source of life, be easily released from the body?
Furthermore, the organs of the human body are connected to the yin and yang and the five elements. If they are damaged, they must be supplemented and mediated by the nourishing things of heaven and earth. All things in the world are in conflict with each other. Only when many medicinal materials are brought together can they dredge the tendons and blood vessels and heal the lesions of the human body. Knowledge is ever-changing, and generations of doctors have been working tirelessly for more than a thousand years, but we still dare not say what medicine can cure the disease, especially if it can be cured by just cutting a blood vessel with a knife?
He was too lazy to argue with these "savages", carefully wrapped the medicinal materials and put them in his arms, and returned to his residence with Azmi.
That night, Chang Sun Jun's heart was like an arrow, and he tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
In the blink of an eye, at dawn, Azmi obtained the credentials issued by the Caliph through some unknown means, assembled a full-scale envoy team, and set off with eldest son Jun in great spirits, heading for the Tang Dynasty thousands of miles away.
A team of more than a hundred people left the city of Damascus in a mighty manner and headed east along the mainland.
On the sand dune where we had camped and rested when we passed by, the howling wind kept blowing, blowing the sand on the dune in the wind, and it hit his face with burning pain. Changsun Jun looked at the black sand burned by the fire on his horse, The mutilated corpse had already been chewed by wild beasts until the white bones were exposed. It was inevitable that he felt guilty, so he quickly speeded up and crossed this place.
It is said that evil will be punished. Killing Qin Changgeng's caravan was really a helpless act. I wonder if his wronged soul will claim his life at some point in the future and die on the spot?