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Chapter 297 The Most Reactionary Class

The Nine Surnames Uyghur Khan Monument was named so because the content of the inscription was the oath of the nine Uyghur tribes to fight against Tiele together.

This is also the purpose of the founding of the Uighurs, and the content of this inscription is actually very clichéd.

It was the Uyghur Nine Surnames who were oppressed by the Tiele people, and had no choice but to follow God's will to raise troops to resist. The Nine Uighur tribes jointly elected the leader of the Uighur tribe to become the Khan, and the Nine tribes all obeyed the Khan's orders.

The value of this inscription is more similar to the Mayflower Convention, which symbolizes the legal basis for the establishment of the Uyghur state.

The nine Uighur surnames are Uighur, Pugu, Hun, Bayegu, Tongluo, Sijie, Qibi, Baximi, and Geluolu.

In fact, it can be seen from this list that the current Uighur royal family is just the largest tribe among the nine Uighur clans.

And Ge Luolu was originally one of the nine surnames of the Uighurs, but now he has broken up with the Uighurs, and has rebelled many times with the support of Datang.

Among the nine surnames, apart from rebels like Ge Luolu, some tribes just joined the Uyghur Nine Surnames Alliance.

Among them is the Pugu family, which is the tribe where Pugu Yehu belongs.

The Pugu family is a tribe that spans the entire Longyou and Mobei, and has branches in Uighur and Tang Dynasty, and Pugu Yehu is not the most famous member of the Pugu family today.

Today, the most famous member of the Pugu family is Pugu Huai'en who played for Datang.

Pu Gu Huai'en served as the envoy of Zuo Wufeng of the Shuofang Army, and was a famous brave general of Guo Ziyi.

The army led by Pugu Huai'en is the Pugu family attached to Datang, and Pugu Huai'en also has an inherent connection with the Uighur Pugu on the grassland.

The last time the prince of the Tang Dynasty borrowed troops from the Uighurs, it was Pugu Huaien who contacted Pugu Yehu to cooperate with him, and then persuaded the previous Ge Le Khan to send troops to the Datang to assist the Datang.

Pugu Yehu had close ties with the Pugu family who moved inland. He traveled to the Hetao area of ​​the Tang Dynasty when he was young, and he was proficient in Chinese.

During Gele Khan's reign, Pugu Yehu has always supported Prince Yehu, and he is also a hardcore pro-Tang faction.

Originally, Zhang Leyan built a trading station near the Khan Monument, but Pugu Yehu always supported it.

But when the trading post was established, Pugu Yehu felt something was wrong.

The goods of these Datang merchants are really good!
An oil lamp that can burn overnight after filling it with oil once, and has a glass cover to prevent wind, so it is safe to burn indoors.

Wash clothes and leave behind herbal-scented soap.

High quality refined salt with few impurities.

The most popular among grassland herdsmen is the colorful dyed cloth.

This kind of textile called cotton is much more comfortable to wear than linen, and not as stuffy as wool.

The colorful cotton cloth is not only bright in color, but also will not fade after washing, so it is very popular among herdsmen.

What happened next made Pugu Yehu vigilant.

The herdsmen sold the livestock they needed to Datang's trade war in exchange for these colorful cloths and useful daily necessities.

If it's just ordinary trade, it's fine.

However, the goods of the Tang Dynasty seem to be endless. Some herdsmen near the Khan Monument even sold all their horses, cattle and sheep to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty in exchange for these beautiful "special products" of the Tang Dynasty.

Pugu Yehu knew that for nomads, horses, cattle and sheep were not only their livestock, but also their food.

Fortunately, in the summer and autumn when the products are relatively abundant, the horses, cattle and sheep can always survive after selling these horses.

But once it comes to the cold winter on the grassland, herders without livestock will never survive.

Thinking of this, Pugu Yehu immediately ordered to prohibit the herdsmen from continuing to sell livestock to Datang.

Naturally, this ban violated the secret agreement between Datang and the Uighurs, so Zhang Leyan, the head of the trading station, was naturally not happy about it.

He continued to trade with the Uighur herdsmen, which completely angered Pugu Yehu, and Pugu Yehu personally led troops to seal the trading post.

After Shang Bo and others returned to the trading station, they found the cow dung piled up at the entrance of the trading station, and saw the Uighur soldiers patrolling around. Shang Bo understood everything at once.

He sighed, it was indeed Zhang Leyan who dumped too much and offended the Uighur nobles.

Along the way, Shangbo has seen many businessmen and players complaining on the forum that the Uighur nobles are more or less hostile to them, the Tang businessmen.

Zhang Leyan welcomed Shangbo in, and said with some embarrassment:

"President of the Chamber of Commerce, I have had some friction with Pugu Yehu these few days, and the relationship is a little tense."

Shang Bo just smiled, and said to Zhang Leyan: "Tomorrow, prepare a gift and come with me to visit Pugu Yehu."

The Khan Stele is a circle of steles, and a city was built around the forest of steles.

Most of the Uyghurs lived in grasslands, and the entire Uyghurs had only five cities in a strict sense.

Uighur Yazhang City, Kedun City and Three Forest of Steles.

Oh, no, there is a sixth city, the fourth Beilin City built by Mou Yu Khan for his father's achievements.

Khan Beilin City is rich in water and grass, and it can support tens of thousands of Uighurs in the city without living in grass.

It's just that the Uighurs are not good at building cities, and the entire Forest of Steles city was built around the Forest of Steles, which looks very strange from a distance.

In the center of the city is a forest of steles, and along the streets radiating from the forest of steles, houses of various styles are built casually.

And Pugu Yehu's mansion is just a little taller than the surrounding houses, and in Shangbo's view, it is just a bigger tent.

At this time, Pugu Yehu received the invitation letter from Shangbo, and he was quite hesitant in his heart.

Pugu Yehu knew that Shang Bo was a distinguished guest in Yazhang City of the Uyghurs, and had visited the Uyghurs on behalf of Long You many times, but he was the envoy of the Tang Dynasty who chatted and laughed happily with Khan!
Pugu Yehu is not an idiot, he sealed off Zhang Leyan's trading station and it's fine, but he refused to see Datang's world, that would be a serious face to Datang.

The establishment of a trading post in Uighur was originally a matter of agreement between King Jianning and Mou Yu Khan.

It seems that we still have to see each other.

Pu Gu Ye Hu called his subordinates and said: "Prepare for tomorrow's banquet, I want to entertain the envoys of the Tang Dynasty!"

Pugu Yehu's mansion was busy, and when Shang Bo brought Zhang Leyan to Pugu Yehu's mansion, he could smell the aroma of barbecue.

What surprised Zhang Leyan even more was that Pugu Yehu had already stood at the gate of the mansion to greet him personally.

"Ye Hu actually greeted the little envoy in person, I'm terrified!"

Shang Bo lowered his posture first, and pleaded guilty to Pugu Yehu.

Pugu Yehu was in a good mood, took Shang Bo's hand and pulled him into the house.

From the beginning to the end, Pugu Yehu didn't even look at Zhang Leyan behind him.

Although Zhang Leyan was dissatisfied, but for the sake of the overall situation of the trading station, he could only carry the gift and walked into Pugu Yehu's house like a follower.

Walking side by side with Pugu Yehu, Shang Bo was also secretly looking at this Yehu Mansion.

Ye Hu is the top nobleman of the Uyghur Khanate, and his status is equivalent to that of the Jiedu Envoy of the founding government of the Tang Dynasty.

It was King Jianning who was a military envoy with a prince, so Pugu Yehu's status was so high that he could disregard the Khan's order and seal up the trading post of the Tang people.

Although this Yehu Mansion doesn't look very good from the outside, the interior decoration is quite luxurious.

Shangbo saw the red silk curtains and the glass windows widely used in Shazhou City.

Various Tang utensils can be seen everywhere, and even a courtyard passing by seems to be in the style of Tang Dynasty.

Pu Gu Ye Hu brought Shang Bo to the main hall. At this time, there were already a lot of nobles and nobles sitting in Ye Hu's mansion.

When they saw Pugu Yehu come in, they all got up and saluted.

But seeing Shang Bo and Zhang Leyan behind Pugu Yehu, these nobles raised their heads arrogantly and snorted coldly.

Shang Bo didn't take it seriously, and talked to Pugu Yehu with a smile.

Zhang Leyan's face was a bit ugly, obviously these Uighur nobles are really shameless!

They didn't look like this when they were looking to buy Datang products, but the way they cut it now made Zhang Leyan feel aggrieved.

These Uighurs are really unfamiliar wolf cubs!
The guest of honor sat down, Pugu Yehu clapped his hands, and a dozen Uighur beauties filed in, waved their long sleeves and began to dance.

But in Zhang Leyan's view, these Uighur dances are really lackluster.

Most of the herdsmen's daughters have rough skin, even if there are a few who are beautiful, they will not be such lowly dancers.

At this time, Uighur dances were basically the evolution of relatively primitive religious dances, and there was no aesthetic feeling to speak of.

The Xinjiang dances of later generations can be so beautiful because the Uighurs expanded southward and divided up the Longyou region of the Tang Dynasty with Tubo.

The Uighurs absorbed the cultures of Gaochang and other countries in the Western Regions, and then developed the embryonic form of modern Xinjiang dance.

This ancient and primitive dance seems to be torture, it is better to watch the beautiful dance of the young lady in the dance area.

Zhang Leyan ate the meat with his head down. The savory mutton was sprinkled with salt and cumin, and it was crispy and fragrant after one bite.

The mutton that was killed first was handled so well that Zhang Leyan couldn't help but eat a few more bites.

It's good to eat in the game, and you won't gain weight if you eat it.

Moreover, the taste simulated by Datang Fengyun is exactly the same as the real world.

As expected of Pugu Yehu, who is rich and powerful, actually used cumin in barbecue.

Today's spices are luxury goods, and ordinary nobles put spices in sachets and use them as perfume.

Pugu Yehu even used spices to roast the sheep. Zhang Leyan looked up and saw that the little nobles were also full of greasy food.

Zhang Leyan sneered, it seems that these Uighurs rarely eat so much spices, and Pugu Yehu also swollen his face to support his fat.

After taking a bite of the mutton, Shang Bo picked up his wine glass and chatted with Pugu Yehu.

"Your envoy came from afar, but for the trading post?"

Shang Bo smiled slightly, and got straight to the point when he came up. It seems that Pugu Yehu's position is not as firm as he showed.

Shang Bo said directly: "The envoy came this time to fulfill the Tang Hui agreement. This mutual market trade was originally an agreement between His Royal Highness King Jianning and Mou Yu Khan, and the establishment of a trading station was also agreed by Khan."

Pugu Yehu wiped the mutton oil on his mouth and said:

"But you Tang people lured the herdsmen and replaced the winter livestock with useless colored cloth. They will starve to death in winter."

What Pugu Yehu said was compassionate, but Shang Bo didn't believe it.

He has seen too many Uighur nobles, so he naturally knows their faces.

If the patriarchs of the small ethnic groups with the same ancestry and surname on the grassland still cared about the herdsmen, a big noble like Pugu Yehu would not care about the life and death of these herdsmen.

Datang cattle and sheep were exchanged for normal trade, and they were not snatched from herdsmen.

Shang Bo nodded and said: "The people are ignorant and don't know the principle of temperance. I suggest that the Datang Trading Station will only trade with Uighur nobles in the future. What do you think of this plan?"

Pugu Yehu's mind turned quickly.

To be able to achieve this position, he is naturally not a fool.

The herdsmen went bankrupt to buy goods from the Tang people, which reduced the clan's livestock and horses in Khanbei.

There is naturally a reason for Pugu Yehu's order to blockade the trading post.

But the more important reason is that in this kind of trade with Tang Dynasty, the Uighur nobles can't make money.

When Datang was still engaged in the tea and horse trade at the border, those who could go to the border to do business were nobles or their servants.

They buy high-quality and cheap Tang specialties from the border, and then transport them to the grasslands and sell them at high prices.

And these premiums will go into the pockets of the Uighur nobles.

However, Datang set up a trading station on the grassland, and sold cheap goods directly to herdsmen.

The Uighur nobles would not be able to earn the difference. While watching the Tang businessmen make a lot of money, they were encouraging Pugu Yehu to seal the Datang Trading Station.

The Shangbo made such a big concession. If the goods were only sold to the Uighur nobles, those mud-legged people who wanted to buy them could only buy them from the Uighur nobles.

In that way, the price difference can be earned again, and the trouble and risk of buying goods at the border can be saved.

There are such good things in this world?
Pugu Yehu took a deep look at Shang Bo, no wonder this man was able to dance well in Yazhang City, and he hit the point of the problem as soon as he opened his mouth.

Shang Bo continued: "If Ye Hu thinks it's inappropriate, then please ask Ye Hu to designate a certain number of exclusive distributors. In the future, in our Datang trade war, we will only sell goods to the merchants designated by Ye Hu!"

Now Pu Gu Yehu raised his head and glanced at Shang Bo appreciatively.

This business blog is really interesting!

Designating an exclusive distributor is tantamount to handing over the right to purchase Datang products to Pugu Yehu.

Even ordinary aristocrats had to go through the dealer designated by Pugu Yehu if they wanted to buy Datang's products.

Pugu Yehu took a sip of his wine and said, "What about Datang's purchase of horses, cattle and sheep?"

"Of course it depends on Ye Hu. In the future, when we, Datang, buy things from Uighurs, we will only go through the dealers you designate."

Then Pu Gu Ye Hu raised his wine glass and said: "I saw you today, Special Envoy Shang is really a wonderful person, no wonder Khan wants to treat you as a guest of honor!"

"Drink and drink, may the friendship between Datang and Uighur last forever!"

After the banquet, Zhang Leyan and Shang Bo returned to the trading post.

Zhang Leyan said dissatisfiedly: "Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce! The goods are only sold to dealers and only bought from dealers. Everything in and out is controlled by others, and our profits will be gone!"

Shang Bo burped and said:

"Don't you think we set up trading posts on the grasslands to make money?"

"Is not it?"

"Of course not. We want to use trade to control the grassland."

"But what does trade control have to do with dealer monopoly?"

"Don't you know that the most reactionary class is the compradors? What we need is not to make money, but a bunch of Uighur compradors."

Shangbo turned around and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't make money now. When the Uighur comprador class stabilizes, there will be opportunities to make money."

(End of this chapter)