stubborn thief

Chapter 245 Foreign Enemies
Private salt dealer is a promising career.

Liu Chengzong originally thought that he would not be able to see his ship until the Haibei Shipyard was built.

Unexpectedly, the brave Tang cavalry took the initiative to attack and seized two fishing rafts from the Mongolian Empire. For a while, the Xihai Fleet became an army!

Because Tang Bing had a great time playing, he set up two bird guns on the raft.

Therefore, the West Sea Fleet became the only master of this ocean on the day it became an army, directly raising the average equipment level of the tribal sailors in Qinghai Lake.

They have shipboard artillery.

Due to the widespread fashion of water burials and celestial burials in the West, the locals did not eat fish, so the Tubo Empire withdrew from the maritime hegemony.

In this way, Liu Erye, who was born as a landlubber, has only the Mongolian Empire, which is good at fishing, as his competitor in this sea.

Evenly matched.

However, on the matter of shipbuilding, Liu Chengzong and Sunday Qiang still have a big difference.

Liu Chengzong felt that the Tubo Empire had withdrawn from the maritime hegemony, and the navy of the Mongol Empire had never dared to see the wind. Their ships could be built casually, and the only thing Zhou Zhouqiang needed to consider was to build the ship as soon as possible.

After all, if the ship is built one day earlier, his troops will be able to build a garrison pier on the opposite bank one day earlier. When there is a little smoke over there, they will be able to support day and night here, and they can send troops to occupy Chakayanchi.

He will be able to have a business route that is making money every day.

According to the scale of 50 people in Hehuang Valley, the value of salt consumed every day is more than 40 taels. This is a big business with a market of [-] taels.

But Sunday Qiang felt that willow wood shipbuilding is not good, and pine wood shipbuilding can last at least 20 years, and the hull is too weak to beat others.

Liu Chengzong wanted to send Zhou Riqiang to Chengyun's medical craftsman, and asked someone to show him his brain.

Is this guy hoping to build a warship that can fight Qinghai Lake monsters or something?

Liu Shizi said: "Just use pine wood. Pine wood is very good, and it can last for 20 years."

In fact, many merchants who run maritime trade use pine wood to build ships, because pine wood ships are cheap.

A boat costs tens of taels of silver, as long as you can take a trip to the South Seas and return, you can earn money by dismantling the boat and burning it as firewood.

Of course, more people will throw their boats along the coast, and the Spaniards like to buy this kind of cheap second-hand cargo ships.

For Liu Chengzong, the same is true for his boat. As long as he can bring back a boatload of salt, the value of the salt will already exceed a hundred times that of the boat.

But a boat needs at least a hundred man-hours, and they are very short of craftsmen.

Zhou Qiang's solution to this matter was very official. He found the two flag troops from Xiningwei and asked them to send a letter to Lanzhou.

There are shipbuilders on the Yellow River in Lanzhou. They may not be so skilled technically, but they are enough for daily use of cargo ships.

It's better than their group of Shaanxi soldiers in shipbuilding.

Liu Chengzong was busy planning the shipyard in Haibei, and his subordinate Dai Daozi was preparing for battle by the Chaka Salt Lake, a mountain away from Hainan.

Under the call of Razun, tens of thousands of herdsmen and Xifan soldiers, led by Nayan from various ministries, launched an attack on the Heka grassland.

He didn't want to devote his troops to this kind of fratricidal battle, so he only led two hundred shepherds and followed Lazun under the protection of Dai Daozi's team of Tangqi.

The reason why Dai Daozi stayed with him was because of the threat of Yan Taiji.

Put it bluntly, brother, look, the mission given to you by the commander is to protect me and return to the station safely, but now there is a war, if I die, your wish of the commander will come to nothing, so you have to protect me again a bit.

Dai Daozi thinks...you are dead, can't the handsome find someone else?In such a big Qinghai, five-legged horses are hard to find, and two-legged Mongols are everywhere?
However, it is not a bad choice to follow Baiyan Taiji to explore the intelligence of the two big tribes.

On the hills in the south of the Heka Grassland, Dai Daozi's subordinates were camping. Dozens of cattle and sheep were foraging in the grassland under the hills. They were all the livestock of this team of Tangqi.

"Team management, another sheep."

There was an iron pot on the bonfire, and the thinly sliced ​​mutton was simmering deliciously in the pot. Dai Daozi was bored with Tang Bing's report, so he responded, concentrated on picking up the mutton, dipped it in garlic and put it in his mouth.

In half a month, Dai Daozi led Tang Qi to participate in two battles.

To put it bluntly, Taiji is not stingy, and all the trophies won by Tangqi belong to them.

Now the Tangqi have their own Hequ horses, and other unused utensils are placed on the edge of the camp after the battle, and let the various herdsmen gathered by Lhazun buy them.

How can I say this kind of transaction?

Because the prices in the minds of the two parties are different, it is as if someone sold a stone of white flour for two taels of silver to Liu Chengzong in northern Shaanxi for a purchase price of one tael.

Both parties feel that the other party is very real, and they have made a lot of money.

Dai Daozi wiped his mouth when he was full, and sighed: "If all the tribes in Qinghai are like this, I don't think the commander-in-chief doesn't need to run around every step of the way, and Qinghai will be the commander-in-chief."

In his eyes, Razun's large and powerful army is not worth mentioning.

Compared with the Xiongnu army 500 years ago, most of the components of this army are slightly inferior in equipment and slightly stronger in tactics, so it is considered a tie.

But there are also surprises.

For example, Khalkadai Qingbu, who came to Huimeng from the mountain pass in the north.

Dai Qing was La Zun's subordinate, and that army consisted of [-] cavalry. They generally used leather armor, which was mostly reinforced with iron bars, and there were many sabers and strong bows.

To put it bluntly, Taiji said that Dai Qing was once a nobleman of Khalkha, who came from Mobei, and was Lazun's right-hand man.

"There may be tough battles in the future. You all remember that no matter who returns to Haibei, he must tell the general about the situation of the Khalkha."

In one of the two battles Dai Daozi participated in, he fought side by side with Dai Qing, and met the troops belonging to Guru Huang Taiji, which was obviously better equipped than Huoluochibu.

It is especially noteworthy that the team of Mongols had muskets.

Dai Qing had a tacit understanding with that army. The two sides encountered each other suddenly, and each slowly withdrew from the battlefield. In the end, Dai Daozi followed Dai Qing and went to the side to snatch a tribe such as Huang Taiji.

Dai Daozi felt that this Dai Qing, like himself, would find it easier for one fish-monster to spot another fish-monster.

There is always a reason why people don't work hard. Dai Daozi thinks that Tang Qi is not worth fighting for Lazun, so why is Dai Qing?

Dai Daozi believes that it is very likely that it is also for the purpose of spying on intelligence.

But this kind of thing is not something he worries about. He hangs out with a group of Mongolian tribes all day long, which greatly improves their sheep herding skills.

Dai Daozi just wanted to fight this battle earlier and return to Haibei to report his findings to the commander.

This land is full of treasures, Lazun's land is rich in pastures, there are silver-lead mines near Bajiao City, and there is a lot of peat.

And in the ancient land of Huangtaiji, several villages capable of mining silver, as well as mines associated with gold and lead, were discovered on the way to the battle.

Right on the hill where they are stationed, there is dry gold below, but they can't mine these things.

Not to mention them, even the Mongolians who live here are too lazy to mine. Mining alluvial gold is a very complicated and cumbersome project.

This requires professionals to do it.

So he wrote down all these places one by one, and he just waited to go back and report to Liu Chengzong.

Soon, Taiji came riding from outside. It looked like he didn't plan to stay in the camp for a long time, but seeing Dai Daozi eating boiled mutton, he got off his horse and sat beside him. He asked someone for a pair of chopsticks. I ate two bites.

"The mutton tastes very good, how is it?" Baiyan Taiji asked, "Do you have any plans to stay with me? You are all good men, you can take care of cattle and sheep."

To put it bluntly, Taiji really wanted to keep Dai Daozi and his team.

During this period of time, he intentionally prevented Dai Daozi from participating in the battle. He didn't need to do anything at any time of the day, as long as he was by his side was enough.

Dai Daozi's Tang riding team is like the biggest jewel, which can make every nobleman who meets him feel envious of him.

Each of them is a seasoned soldier, 49 of them have 49 sets of armor, and all of them are neat cotton armors of the Ming army... On the Gannan grassland, even Lazun's guards did not have such neat equipment.

The most important thing is that during this period of time, Dai Daozi not only gained a lot of understanding of Gannan Mongolian tribes, but he also thought he knew Liu Shizi's troops very well.

Although most of the information comes from Chen Shifo, who doesn't understand anything, there are some things that are easy to formulate.

For example, Liu Shizi is from northern Shaanxi, and his troops come from Yulin, Ningxia, and Guyuan.

And Dai Daozi and this team of Tangqi are both from Ningxia.

In the eyes of Baiyan Taiji, this is equivalent to Daiqing of the Khalkha tribe attached to Lhazun, basically tantamount to leaving as soon as he said it.

So he said that he wanted to try and keep this team of people by his side forever.

Dai Daozi found a Tang Bing who knew the Mongolian language, and laughed dryly after hearing it. He knew what Taiji was thinking, shook his head and said: "As long as the trade between Taiji and the commander is concluded, these things on us, you can be easily purchased.”

Dai Daozi knew very well that the armor on his body was not of good quality, and every time the Lion Army gave them pocket money, they would go to the craftsman to find armor pieces.

Since Tang Qi seldom participates in robbery missions, the main purpose of everyone is not to buy the best set of armor, but to buy a similar set of armor is enough.

He also hopes that the trade between the Lion Army and the Mongols will start smoothly. At that time, they will be able to exchange the armor on their bodies for eighty or ninety livestock. When the livestock are brought to Xining, they can even buy the armor for their son.

While most don't have sons, as trade unfolds, they soon have mothers-in-law.

I have never heard of a rich man who can't find his mother-in-law.

To put it bluntly, Taiji smiled and didn't say much.

Although the prices here are like this, rare things are expensive.

But in fact... there is no way to take out [-] head of livestock at once.

What's more, he doesn't want Liu Chengzong to really open up the market in Qinghai, which is human nature.

At this moment, only 49 people like Dai Daozi can be envied by others. When every nobleman can buy expensive equipment from Juerwan, can 49 sets of armor still be envied?
Without gaps and comparisons, how can people be happy?

"This battle is almost over, will you go back later?"

Dai Daozi nodded as a matter of course, and asked, "Is the battle going to be over?"

He felt that the battle had just begun.

He nodded and said, "We came here just to snatch the horse. We're almost done, so we'll go back. Can we beat our brother to death?"

After finishing talking, he looked around and said in a low voice, "Do you think there is something wrong with Dai Qing?"

Of course Dai Daozi felt that there was something wrong with Dai Qing, but he didn't say anything, he just asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"He is a Khalkha. There are Khalkhas over there in Guru, and there are even Khalkhas in the tribe of Yongxiebu in the farther west."

Tuidan was later Qaidam, and now the two tribes of Yongxiebu occupied it.

The Khalkha people from Mobei are mixed with every force in Qinghai, making Bai Yan worried.

"We brothers killed each other, and Chuoke Tutaiji of Khalkha was watching from outside Suzhou. I always felt that Chuoke looked like a wolf, and he might attack us at any time."

Dai Daozi frowned when he heard the messy tribe names.

Especially when the names of these tribes also bear the name of the leader, he has a big head.

He said, "Then what are your plans?"

Bai Yan didn't speak for a long time.

His mood is very complicated, Razun and Guru are both his brothers, and it is very uncomfortable for brothers to kill each other.

But brother killing is not the worst thing.

If you weaken yourself and attract foreign enemies because your brothers kill each other, that is the most uncomfortable thing.

Because this not only makes people uncomfortable, but also makes their brothers look stupid.

Beside them, there is the wolf of Chuoketu in Khalkha, and in Juerwan, there is the lion of Liu Chengzong.

Relatively speaking, the lion made him feel more at ease.

Because every Mongolian is willing to believe that no matter how powerful the Han people are, they will not be able to survive in Amdo, and if they cannot stay in Kham, they will never enter U-Tibet.

The Mongols, on the other hand, would not only chase into Kham, but also into U-Tsang.

Regardless of Razun or Guru, at this time, they only want to use their power to attack each other for the small tribes attached to them outside.

On the contrary, he said that he could be an outsider and examine more and more Mobei Khalkha people in Qinghai.

"After this battle, it won't be long before Guru will definitely march towards the Gannan Grassland. I don't want to fight with him, so you go back and ask the commander if I can lead the tribe to cross the Yellow River from Guide and pass through Riyue Mountain. Shepherd in Haibei."

Dai Daozi laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Isn't Haibei the place where Razun gave us the commander?"

"Your commander-in-chief doesn't listen, and Razun doesn't care about fighting with you, so it's naturally your commander-in-chief's place."

There was nothing he could do about it. After seeing Liu Chengzong's army, he was actually more worried that it was Liu Shizi who sent troops to attack them.

"I can go back and ask you, but don't have too much hope." Dai Daozi said: "We want to cultivate the land, and we won't let you be the shepherd."

Hearing that Dai Daozi was willing to tell the truth for him, Bai Yan felt a little relieved: "I know that, Haibei is very big, and there are many places that cannot be farmed, I just go to those places."

"But I have one request."

Yan Taiji looked at Dai Daozi, paused before continuing to speak: "I told the commander-in-chief that since we made peace, the two families will become one family, and we will get along well."

"If those foreign tribes in Khalkha want to occupy Qinghai, I hope the commander-in-chief can lend me troops, and those of us in Qinghai can fight against foreign enemies together."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)