Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 999

Twelve thousand catties of tea, even the chief of the Dangxiang Seal Department stationed in Jiacheng, couldn't help being moved after hearing about it.I personally went down the mountain to invite this tea merchant from Han.

"If you don't drink for one day, you will have diarrhea, and if you don't drink for three days, you will get sick." For nomadic tribes, tea is more necessary than salt.Without salt, which can be obtained from livestock blood and milk, but without tea, it will be very sad for them.

If the nomadic people who eat milk and meat as their staple food do not drink tea regularly, the consequences will be very serious, and they are prone to many diseases, leading to short-lived lives.

Therefore, in the current border trade, tea is the most popular, and even tea bricks have become a hard currency in pastoral areas.

When Tang Jian met the chief, he generously presented a set of white porcelain tea sets produced in Xingjiao, Hebei Province. It was very exquisite, and the porcelain was as white as paper.

This is the representative of northern porcelain, and the opposite is the celadon produced in the south of the Yangtze River.

A set of high-quality white porcelain is a status symbol. Although it is available in almost every family of officials and nobles in the Central Plains, it is a good thing for the Qiang people here.

The happy chief immediately returned a good Qiang horse to Tang Jian, and the courtesy was reciprocal, and Qiang Rong also understood.

Tang Jian immediately became the chief's distinguished guest and entered Jiacheng County.

Going up the mountain and entering the city, Tang Jian secretly looked at the city, and found that the city was built along the Minjiang River, but it was built on the mountain. The city is not big, and it looks a little dilapidated, but it is very dangerous.

After entering the city, they found that there were few people in the city, but there were many Qiang people.

Through some conversations, Tang Jian learned that the chieftain was the son of the chief of the Xifeng tribe in the Eight Departments of the Dangxiang, named Xifeng Bulai.

"My secret seal is the main part of the party. First, I followed my father to capture this city. Because of my bravery, my father entrusted this place to me."

He has fine hair, shaved head, a pair of earrings on each side of his ears, an armband on each arm, and a big gold ring hanging from one ear. He is tall and tall. He is tough and can speak decent Chinese.

From this point of view, they are actually not considered Sheng Qiang.

According to Xifeng Burai, he actually visited Chang'an in his early years. As early as the fourth year of Kaihuang, the Dangxiang and Qiang tribes at that time, under the leadership of Tuoba Ningcong, were attached to the Sui Dynasty and were resettled in Lintao County. In the Lintan area, the imperial court conferred official positions on the heads of various ministries.

Later, in the 16th year of Kaihuang, the Dangxiang Qiang tribes jointly sent troops to attack Huizhou in the Sui Dynasty, but they were defeated. The Dangxiang Qiang tribes were afraid, so they sent envoys to plead guilty and sent their children to Chang'an as hostages.

Xifeng Bulai, as the son of the chief of the Xifeng tribe, also went to Chang'an as hostages at that time. After arriving in Chang'an, they were first arranged to study in the Imperial College, and later selected some brave men to serve as the emperor's guards.

He stayed in Chang'an for several years before returning to Qiang. Because he stayed in Chang'an for many years, after the Xifeng Department captured Jiacheng, he specially let this son manage it.

He led a thousand clansmen here, and he managed it well. Although this place is no longer as peaceful and lively as it used to be, at least it has settled down, and there have been no accidents after occupying this place for several years.

"I heard that among the Dangxiang and Qiang tribes, the Tuoba tribe is the most powerful? When the Dangxiang tribes returned to the Sui Dynasty, they seemed to be led by Tuoba Ningcong, the leader of the Tuoba tribe." Tang Jian laughed.

As a result, this remark made Ayumi Hosaka very dissatisfied.

"The Tuoba tribe was not originally from the Xiangqiang people of our party. They were originally from the Tuoba tribe in Xianbei. Later, a branch entered the Qiang area, so they also became a part of our party, but they are not real party members."

In Xifeng Bulai's words, it revealed his dissatisfaction with the most powerful Tuoba tribe among the current Dangxiang Qiang tribes.

The Tuoba tribe is the strongest among the eight tribes, with [-] riders in strength. In comparison, the Xifeng tribe is only about [-] riders, and some of the other six tribes only have two or three thousand riders.

In the Sui Dynasty, it was indeed the Tuoba Department that took the lead, but later the Fine Seal Department was also very dissatisfied, which also led to the Dangxiang Qiang rebellion in the 16th year of Kaihuang. That rebellion was actually provoked by the Fine Seal Department of.

It was just that the rebellion was defeated, and the Qiangs of the party were forced to go south into the barren Qiang land, and even sent their children to Chang'an as hostages to pay tribute to the golden Qiang horses.

After being a grandson for many years, when the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, the Dangxiang Zhuqiang couldn't help but sent troops again. Among them, the Xifeng Department was still the most active. They took the lead in capturing Jiacheng County, the gateway to western Sichuan.

Each surname of the party item is a tribe, the big one has more than [-] riders, and the small one has two or three thousand riders.They are vulgar in martial arts, they can't be ordered, they each have their own business, and they gather together when there is a battle, they don't have Yao Fu, and they don't communicate with each other.

Shepherds yaks and sheep, hunts for food, and does not know how to harvest.

This is the basic state of the party members. The various parts are scattered and nomadic, and they do not communicate with each other at ordinary times. They depend on animal husbandry for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Once a plague or heavy snowstorm occurs, they can only gather to invade the Han land and rob other tribes. starve.

They worship the gods and are cremated after death.

What these people admire most is force, they pay attention to fighting against disobedience, and they also respect the strong, and they will submit to whoever hurts them.

The same clan is also very united. Once hurt by foreigners, they must take revenge. It is even stipulated that before revenge, they must be disheveled and barefoot, and meat is forbidden. Only when the enemy is killed can they return to normal.

After killing the enemies, use their heads to sacrifice to the gods and comfort the clansmen. They call it blood relatives reward match.

They also particularly admire white, which is the color of snow-capped mountains, and they believe that the gods live on snow-capped mountains.

The Xifeng clan, Feiting clan, Quili clan, Pochao clan, Yeli clan, Fangdang clan, Miqin clan, Tuoba clan and other clans are called the eight clans of Dangxiang.

"I'll take care of all your [-] catties of tea. The price is negotiable. We have a lot of fine seals."

Although black tea is the worst tea, in Qiang land, thirty to forty catties of tea leaves can be exchanged for a horse, and even the best horses are only seven or eighty catties of tea leaves at most.

More than 1 catties of tea are just a few hundred horses.

"If my batch of tea is transported to the west mountain, it can be exchanged for more than a thousand horses." Tang Jian said with a smile.

Xishan is not a mountain, but refers to a large area in the west of Sichuan, which is probably a large area of ​​Qiang land such as Snow Mountain, Minjiang River, Qionglai Mountain, Jinchuan and Dadu River.

In the north of Jiacheng, the upper reaches of the Minjiang River go straight to Minshan Mountain, that is to say, to the Jiuzhaigou area of ​​later generations. They are all Dengzhi Qiang people, also known as Baishui Qiang.To the west of Jiacheng, Ruoergai, Hongyuan, and Aba are the territory of the Misang and Chunsang tribes.

In the southwest of Jiacheng, in the Dajinchuan area, there are Jialiangyi and the tribes of the Fuguo.

To the east of Minshan Mountain are Zhushu and Qiang tribes, and there are also Liao people who migrated from the Southern Dynasties.

These tribes are collectively called Xishan Zhuqiang.

To the west of Minshan Mountain and south of Maiji Mountain is Dangxiang Qiang, and to the west of Dangxiang Babu is Bailan Qiang.

The situation in this area is very complicated. Originally, the Dangxiang Xifeng Department and Jiacheng were separated by the Baishui Qiang in the north, and the Misang and Chunsang Qiangs in the west of Jiacheng.

However, the Xifeng Ministry took advantage of the chaos of the Sui Dynasty to seize Jiacheng, and now the Misang Chunsang and other departments have to attach themselves to Dangxiang Qiang instead.And Dangxiang Qiang surrendered to the more powerful Tubo.

"You want to pass by my place and sell the tea I need to the Qiangs in the Western Mountains. That's not kind." Xifeng Bu Laihua moved the meat-cutting knife in his hand, his words were threatening.

Tang Jian just smiled slightly.

"If leader Xifeng really wants to make a big deal, I still have a big deal here, but I don't know if leader Xifeng dares to do it. If you have the guts to make this deal, it's not worth a thousand pounds Tea can be compared."

Xifeng Bulai stopped turning the knife in his hand, "Oh, there is such a big business, why don't you tell me, there is no business in Xishan that I dare not do!"

(End of this chapter)