Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 557

Mandarin ducks park.

"King Taiping, there is no food supply in the Central Plains. Now the price of food in Datong Prefecture has increased tenfold. With the current price of food in Datong Prefecture, the cattle, sheep, horses, furs and other goods we seized cannot be exchanged for much food..."

Before Wei Wei finished speaking, he already felt the anger of the two big men in front of him, and his expression was a little panicked.

He was originally from Youzhou, and was kidnapped by Khitan to Linhuang Mansion 15 years ago.

He also had a wife and children at home, but he didn't want to live in Khitan, so he planned to escape and was caught by Khitan people.

The Khitans were not bad at taking the people who were plundered to Linhuang Mansion, they gave them fields and land, and they also helped build houses for them to live in.

But for a restless Han like him, the punishment was extremely severe, and he was exiled to Mobei as a sheep-herding slave, and he was lame on the way to the exile.

Relying on the cultural foundation he learned in the Central Plains, Wei Wei was reused by Yelufu Sage, who was responsible for the logistics calculation work.

He knew that Yelufu Sage was moody and shrunk his head in fear.

Yelufu Sage's first reaction was to sit on the ground and raise the price, scolding: "It's unreasonable, you know that the southerners are nothing..."

Wei Wei tremblingly said: "The granary in Taiyuan Mansion caught fire, and most of the grain used to trade with us was burned. During the period when the king sent troops, all the tribes in the north were scrambling for grain in the cloud of Datong. The price increased tenfold. Can’t buy enough of them either.”

The northern grassland is not only Mongolian, there are many other tribes.

Winter came early this year, and some tribes had already been eyeing the grain shipped from the Central Plains to the North this year.

Knowing that there was a fire in Taiyuan and the grain was only [-]% of what it used to be, all the tribes were red-eyed and began to rush for it.

The vendors, both overtly and secretly, have raised the price by more than ten times.

When they came back from the plunder this time, the shit really couldn't keep up with the heat.

Yelufu Sage's face was gloomy, the fire in Taiyuan was burning at an inopportune time.

Wu's beggar sullenly.

Yelufu Sage felt bad, and called out, "An Da!"

Ever since the beggar of the Wu family heard that the looted materials were returned intact at the price of [-] clansmen, he didn't say a word, but just clenched his fists and trembled slightly.

Hearing the call of the good brother, Wu's beggar turned around.

Looking at the anger that was about to spurt out in Wu's beggar's eyes, Yelufu Sage's eyes were somewhat troubled.

Wu's beggar suppressed his anger, and said word by word: "Okay, very good, if he doesn't sell it, I will grab it. If you angered the hungry wolves, let them know, and you will end up hunting them down."

He said turning around and leaving.

After walking for three steps, without turning his head, he just said: "If An Da is in trouble, you don't need to participate in it. My brother will call many tribes and act together."

He left such a sentence and left in a hurry.

Since the first snowfall, the following days will be getting colder and colder.

Only their Kelie tribe can't compete with the Central Plains. In this limited time, they have to call on all the tribes, plus some friendly tribes, to form an alliance army before they can hope to fight the Central Plains.

Yelufu Sage's face was tangled, and he cursed, "Mother, I did it."

He picked up the horn and blew it loudly.

At the same time, Yelu Dilie, who was far away in Datong Mansion, his left and right eyelids kept twitching, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

"Why is there no news yet?"

He waited for news from the north.

How long has it been since you have been so irritable?

Yelu Dilie thought about it carefully, the last time he was so anxious was when they split at the very beginning and were crushed by Khitan from all sides.

Afterwards, with the support of Zhongyuan, I lived a comfortable life, and I didn't even know what trouble was.

Until recently, there was a fire in Taiyuan, years of fighting in the Central Plains, insufficient storage of grain and grass, no grain to sell north, Yelu Dilieli could not complain.

Yelv Dilie knew that not only himself, but also many tribes in the north were gradually relying on the food sold in the north of the Central Plains.

This sudden food shortage, at this sensitive time of winter, will deal a big blow to many tribes in the north, and will put many tribes that rely on grain from the Central Plains for the winter into a desperate situation.

Yelv Dilie is a Khitan, and he knows the habits of the grassland people like the back of his hand.

Once encountering bad weather and unsustainable, as long as someone takes the lead, a huge plundering force will be formed to go south.

"It's not good!" Xiao Daqian came running out of breath, "Your Majesty, there is news from the north that King Taiping is already gathering troops."

"Bastard! I knew that the boss was unreliable, and he was only thinking about himself."

Yelu Dilie scolded extremely corruptly: "A wolf-hearted thing, if I hadn't played around with it, he thought that the emperor of the Central Plains would be so kind and sell him the grain? Now that something happened, he turned his face and refused to recognize anyone, what the hell."

He let off steam.

Xiao Daqian couldn't help but said: "At the beginning, we shouldn't have traded with them at the same price, and we didn't miss us at all."

The seat of this ass determines the mind.

In the eyes of Yelufu Sage and Wu's beggars, the Central Plains is black-hearted. Through unequal trade, rice, salt, and fur clothes are exchanged for their cattle, horses, sheep, and leather.

But in the eyes of people like Yelu Dilie and Xiao Dagan, that is the kindness displayed by the Central Plains.

The Central Plains imperial court was completely self-sufficient, but they sold the grain they worked so hard for, and the price was so cheap.Let them northerners survive every winter safely.

This is a great credit.

Compared with the price of smuggling by merchants in the past, the price given by the Central Plains court can indeed be called conscience.

As for the food shortage this time, it was really caused by the irresistible fire, and it was not that the Central Plains deliberately cut off their food.

Could it be that all these years of hard work turned into nothingness because of a small accident?
Yelv Dilie really looked down on Yelufu Sage's style of putting on his pants and turning his face and denying others.

Yelu Dilie suppressed his anger and said, "Mr. Ma is eloquent. Let Mr. Ma go to the north to persuade King Taiping..." As he spoke, it suddenly occurred to him that his elder brother didn't like Han people, so he changed his mind. He said: "Forget it, you should go and find out in person. Be sure to persuade Taiping Wang Shaoan not to be impatient. As a brother, I, as a brother, try to help him solve the matter. Don't get too hot-headed and do things that make brothers quarrel. .”

Xiao Daqian went without hesitation.

The matter was urgent, Xiao Daqian took only a few followers, one person and three horses, and traveled day and night. That night, he arrived at the 99 spring stronghold where Yelufu Sage was, and met the Taiping King Yelufu Sage.

Xiao Daqian understood it with emotion and moved it with reason, what he said was dry mouth and tongue.

Yelufu Sage didn't listen to Xiao Daqian's persuasion, but said to Xiao Daqian who stopped for breath: "Go back and tell the fourth brother, I don't want to fight with him as the eldest brother. I don't need him to follow me Let's work together, as long as he maintains neutrality, let us pass and reach Yanmen Pass. I can guarantee that he will not hurt one person or one sheep."

(End of this chapter)