Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 290
In this disaster, the whole big man just survived for several months.

In the 13th year of Jianning, the situation has just improved. The disasters in Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou and other places have gradually eased. However, even so, the cold did not end because of this. The disasters he brought , was not evened out, Hezhou and Xinzhou suffered the most serious blow, Lu Zhi and Yang Qiu gritted their teeth and cheered up again.

In Xiliang, Zheng Xuan tried his best to buy cotton from those merchants.

Foreign merchants with different appearances stood in front of Zheng Xuan with a smile. There were seven or eight people who came here. Their coming here is enough to see their courage and financial resources. At this moment, they all seem a little excited. On weekdays, they are not qualified to meet and talk with Zheng Xuangong.

Zheng Xuan didn't have any disdain or contempt for them. Even though he is a great Confucian, he should have a deep hatred for merchants, but he didn't. He asked with a smile, "I don't know, everyone, where are you from?"

There was an outsider beside him, who had been in the Han Dynasty for a long time and was proficient in Chinese. He quickly told the words of Zheng Xuan to those outside merchants. The speed was extremely fast, and at the same time, while speaking, he was also used to making gestures with both hands, which made Zheng Xuan a little dazed.

"What are they talking about?"

"Here, Mr. Zheng... I can't translate their words to you without their orders. I was hired by them." The translator said with a firm gaze, and the merchants looked at him suspiciously. After asking him a few words, he chatted with them a few words, and then stopped talking. Zheng Xuan was a little helpless, and said, "I will give you ten gold."

The man's eyes lit up, he shook his head, and said, "They are discussing how to tell you about the country. They are all merchants from some small countries in different regions." The man said, pointing to those merchants, and then patted himself chest.

Those merchants asked suspiciously in their own language: "Sutiba, what are you talking about to the nobles of the Han Dynasty?"

"I told him that I was hired by you and I would not disclose anything to him!" the translator Sutiba said solemnly.

The businessmen nodded happily and praised him a few more words.

After a while, Sutiba said: "Duke Zheng, they want me to tell you that they are from Guishuang"

"Oh? Then where do they actually come from?" Zheng Xuan asked.

Su Tiba looked at Zheng Xuan and smiled, Zheng Xuan said helplessly: "After the thing is done, I will definitely be rewarded, you know my reputation, I will never go back on my word."

Sutiba looked at the merchants and said with a smile, "The nobles of the Han Dynasty want me to say hello to your king."

Those businessmen said a few words with a smile.

"They told me that they thanked Zheng Gong for his greetings to their king. In fact, they came from some small countries that were conquered by Guishuang. I don't know the names very well. However, the cotton came from Guishuang."

Zheng Xuan nodded with a smile. He knew in his heart that these merchants wanted to use the name of Guishuang for self-protection and to put forward conditions. Zheng Xuan looked at them and asked, "I don't know, if I buy it with all my strength, how much can I get?" cotton?"

The person began to translate again.

"They said that they can't get much. In fact, they have a lot of goods in stock. It's just that they want to drive up the price."

Zheng Xuan nodded and asked, "Then what price are they going to offer?"

After Sutib's translation and half of the envoys' discussion, Zheng Xuan also understood the general situation, and he finally asked: "Maybe this thing was cultivated by the Han?"

When the merchants heard about it, they shook their hands and talked excitedly.

"Zheng Gong, they said that it is not possible. This thing can only be planted in Guishuang, but this thing has been planted in the Western Regions for a long time, but it has not been introduced to the Central Plains. If Zheng Gong is interested, I can help you plant it."

"I see, you help me buy their goods, and I will give you a lot of money"

"Duke Zheng, if you can stay by my side and give me an official position, I will definitely help you!"

"it is good!"

Sutibah sighed helplessly, looked at the merchants, and said: "Everyone, the great nobles of the Han Dynasty felt that our price was too high, and he was unwilling to pay for it. I persuaded him for a long time, but he did not agree. .he wants us to go back"

"How can it be? We heard that he was going to buy it, and we spent all our money and brought a large amount of goods. How could he not buy it?"

"Tell them, our Guishuang Empire is not easy to mess with"

Sutiba looked at Zheng Xuan and said, "Please come back first, I will come to see you after I negotiate the price!"

"Then I will trouble you." Zheng Xuan said, and walked away.

"Everyone, the nobles of the Han Dynasty said, don't forget Ban Chao"

These merchants suddenly fell silent. The Guishuang Empire was a country established by the Yuezhi people. They used to nomad from Zhangye to Dunhuang in the west of the Hexi Corridor. They were powerful and powerful enemies of the Xiongnu. During the period of Emperor Xiaowu, they had close contacts with the Han Dynasty. , They are divided into five branches: Xiumi, Shuangmi, Guishuang, Bidun, and Gaofu Wuxihou.

Later, Xihouqiu of the Guishuang tribe unified the five tribes and established the Guishuang Empire. After years of fighting, it gradually became one of the most powerful countries in the entire western region. Later, these people asked the big man for marriage , wanting to marry the princess back, they thought that since they were already stronger than the Xiongnu, the Emperor of Han would definitely agree to their conditions, but they did not expect that their proposal would be directly rejected by the current Ban Chao.

King Guishuang was very angry and sent his deputy Wang Xie to lead an army of [-] to attack the big man, but they were defeated by Ban Chao before they got close to the big man. Ban Chao threatened them to attack their capital and kill their king. They were terrified However, Ban Chao never knew the name of King Guishuang, and he didn't bother to know it. He just called him "King Yueshi".

For these Guishuang people, Dahan is still a rather terrifying country.

Sutiba took these merchants out, and after a few days, these merchants also kept lowering their prices, thinking of threatening to leave, and tried various methods, but with Sutiba around, Zheng Xuan They didn't even know about their methods. In the end, these merchants wanted to cry without tears, so they had to sell the cotton at a low price, and even pleaded.

Zheng Xuan met them again and still gave them more money. These merchants were very grateful to Zheng Xuan for his righteous deed. Zheng Xuan asked them to bring more items of this kind to the big man, preferably what the big man didn't have.
And Sutiba was also kept by Zheng Xuan's side as a subordinate official.

Zheng Xuan transported the cotton to Luoyang. After the emperor ordered the temple to distribute some clothes made of cotton, the cotton officially entered the eyes of the scholar-officials. The scholar-bureaucrats did not like these uncomfortable cottons. As far as people are concerned, this thing can save their lives, especially those people in Hezhou and other places love it very much.

At first, the scholar-bureaucrats only disdain this thing, but they don’t pay attention to it because they can save the common people, but later they learned that the clothes issued by the temple are made of cotton, which are extremely indecent. After the hakama that did not conform to the dress, the celebrities and sages couldn't sit still, and they all played, demanding to cut off these obscene and indecent decorations, and not let foreign things destroy the culture of the big man himself!

In this era, clothing and culture are connected, and celebrities attach great importance to this.

In Luoyang, after seeing these memorials, the emperor was angry
(End of this chapter)