Chapter five hundred and seventy-ninth armed robbing business
The big merchants' heads were covered with cloth turbans, and everyone was uniformly dressed in white. They looked like a caravan dressed in white and feasting on food. They slapped their horses' buttocks and roared south, avoiding the Tang Dynasty Station along the way, heading towards
Go to Qunu City south of the Ganges River.
There are two advantages to dressing up as a white-clad Dashi. Firstly, the Dashi people often go south to India to do business. The same route as them goes straight to the Hindu Kulun Mountains, which makes it less likely to arouse suspicion. Secondly, Dai Wang is very ambitious.
Monopolizing the entire trade route from India to the Tang Dynasty, whenever there are Sogdian merchants or Datang merchants, they will definitely be more vigilant and even block them. As long as they dress up as cannibals, Dai Wang's men will not block them.
Well, they shouldn’t be able to control the big cannibals transporting pepper to their own country, right?
On the way to Qunu City, you have to go through three countries, including Gargota, the largest country in Kashmir. Foreigners do not need to pay taxes when entering, and they will be treated hospitably, making you feel like a VIP.
But don't mistake the enthusiasm of the natives for being naive and naive. After the business travelers finish their transactions, they must pay no less in taxes when they leave, otherwise they will be severely punished.
Their commercial taxes were never used to support the army, build water conservancy projects, build infrastructure, etc. They were purely used to support the Brahmans who controlled the divine power. The Kshatriyas carved out their own spheres of influence, and each family had its own private army.
Gao Gai and the others came to Qunu City. There were statues of gods on both sides of the city wall. Green moss covered the wall, giving people a long and moist feeling. After entering the city, everyone was amazed and looked up at the various cities.
The architecture amazed them.
Indian architecture is gorgeous and complex with geometric beauty, with pointed stone towers criss-crossing upwards, and various reliefs hanging around. Two lifelike stone giant elephants are carved at the entrance of the huge stone hall of the palace, and shirtless palace guards wearing iron armor are nearby.
patrol.
There was a group of monks debating in the square in front of the temple. They looked like Brahman monks. Gao Gai turned around and said to everyone: "Don't underestimate this group of monks. They are different from our monks in the Tang Dynasty. They are different."
He is a Brahmin monk, equal to the fucking emperor."
"How can a monk be equal to the emperor?"
"Because the emperor is also a fucking monk. He is an emperor in front of the secular people, but when he returns to their own temple, he is a fucking junior."
King Yesabhaman is indeed a Brahmin. He is the ruler of Qunv City and the ruler of North India. Kings of more than a dozen small states are attached to him. Compared with the scattered sands of the South Indian countries, he has already
It's a big business.
Since they were fake Arab businessmen, they did not dare to visit high-ranking officials. They only asked nearby Buddhist monks and ordinary people to find out where Dai Wang's final stronghold was?
Such inquiries made them even more surprised. Dai Wang actually became a minister and aristocrat under the rule of Yesa Poman, joined the Kshatriya class, and also entrusted a large piece of land in the south of Qunu City.
A group of people fell into hesitation and doubt as to whether they would continue to act and whether they would be severely punished for robbing and killing other people's territory and high-ranking officials on Indian soil.
"You don't have to worry!" Lu Xiu, who has been to India many times for business, raised his finger and said loudly: "As long as the Brahmin is not killed, we have room to turn! Let's capture Dai Wang's territory first, and then go to the king.
Saboman, offer a large amount of property. As long as the money is enough, he will forgive us, replace Dai Wang and become the new noble, and then remove their inns along the road north to the territory of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, we will be qualified to negotiate with Li Siye
, replacing Dai Wang and becoming the master monopolizing the pepper business."
"Okay, let's do it!"
At this time, the people of the Tang Dynasty were very adventurous. They dared to play polo, the most exciting game among ball sports, and they also dared to take risks to gain wealth. The two profit-seeking businessmen hit it off and immediately organized a team of more than 100 people.
People's private armies actually go to other countries to compete for wealth with others. This kind of spontaneous behavior among the people has become as shameless as capital grabbing profits.
They went out from the south gate of Qunu City and marched quickly along the flat Indian country road. After walking for two days, they finally arrived at the fiefdom of Kshatriya Daiwang.
Dai Wang spent a lot of money to build a small city here. Local Indian craftsmen and civilians were hired during the construction. There are crenellations and watchtowers on the city wall. The city is the shipping point of the Western Regions Commercial Bank, and there are cattle carriages and stables, as well as mountains of piles.
of peppercorns.
These people took advantage of the darkness and came to the city wall. They were dumbfounded when they looked at the city gate. There were more than a hundred of them. How could they fight? Even if there were only a dozen armed guards in the city, as long as they stood on top of the city and looked down, it would probably take one round trip.
You can light them up.
Lu Xiu was frightened and retreated: "The city is now so strong that it is difficult to conquer. They have spent so much money and must have hired strong men to protect them. How about we forget it and stop fighting. We can get some from other places."
Pepper, go back? At least you can make up for the lost money."
Some of the bandits and swordsmen following them nodded in agreement, and some had increasingly fierce eyes. Gao Gai looked back at everyone with a hesitant expression, and in the blink of an eye he looked firm and stern: "Who said we won't fight! We spent so much money.
With money, we hired so many people to travel thousands of miles to India just to snatch Dai Wang’s property!”
"But do we have any chance of winning?"
"Yes, why not! Now Dai Wang is proudly enjoying the gold he got from pepper in the Yangguan trading house. He would never have expected that someone would dare to go to India, thousands of miles away, to sneak attack on his property. This is a fucking
It’s an empty city, as long as we find a way to trick our way in, and then go on a killing spree, the entire city will be ours!”
"If Dai hopes that he has accomplished such a big thing, it will still be difficult to deal with it from beginning to end. As long as we capture this place, collect all the stations under his control, and spend a lot of money to make the Indian King Yesabhaman change his position, when he comes back to India, we will
We have everything under control, just kill it!"
"How to break in?" Lu Xiu asked.
"Isn't this simple? We are now large food vendors, and now we ask people who can speak Sanskrit to shout to the top of the city, saying that we want to rest in the city for a night and wait until the next day to go south to search for benzoin. If they are not willing,
Just say give them more money."
Gao Gai found a guide who could speak Sanskrit and asked him to negotiate with the city. The guide didn't know their insidiousness, so he believed them and shouted to the top of the city: "Hey, is there anyone there?"
Two or three torches were lit on the top of the city, and one of them replied in Sanskrit: "What are you doing?"
"These people I am leading are food vendors. They are going to the south to buy benzoin. Now that it is dark today, I want to come to your city to rest for a night."
"It's dark, we don't accept outsiders in this city!"
The guide turned around in embarrassment and asked: "They said they won't accept outsiders, what should we do?"
Gao Gai said in a low voice: "Just tell them that we are willing to pay, one Sasanian gold coin for each person!"
The guide called the original words up to the top of the city, and the people above became quiet and seemed to be discussing. Soon the light on the top of the city disappeared, but there was a flickering light of fire in the gaps in the city gate.
A ferocious smile appeared on Gao Gai Luxiu's face, and the bandits behind him quietly tightened their weapons. They turned around and warned: "Don't act rashly, just look at my eyes."
The city gate like a gate rose upwards. Everyone lowered their voices and walked forward in order. After passing through the deep doorway, they could vaguely see the outline of the city wall on the opposite side, and there was also a closed city gate.
The two of them felt something was wrong. Gao Gai came back to his senses and shouted loudly: "There is a fucking Wengcheng, retreat quickly!"
Everyone whipped their horses and ran back. The city gate behind them had crashed down. Looking back to look around the city, clusters of torches danced like an array of lights. There was the sound of armor armor shaking, and there were people all around.
At every crenellation of the city's female walls, there are shining iron helmets holding crossbows.
The faces of Gao Gao and Lu Xiu were completely frightened and stunned: "Why are there Tang troops here!"