Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 352
"That's easy!" Cao Yena pulled out the short dagger at his waist and handed it out: "Anyone who wants to go out will kill me first, and cut off my head to show to Wang Sima. Just say that I have gone crazy just now." , What I say doesn’t count, and now I refuse to give money, I, Cao Ye, have absolutely no complaints!”

Cao Yena walked around in front of the Hu merchants with a dagger in his hand, but no one dared to take the dagger. At the end, Cao Yena smiled and said, "What's the matter, no one dares to come? No one dares to come to kill Little old man, no one dares to tell that Wang Sima that he will not give money? Everyone, do you think that Wang Sima is asking us if we will pay? He is asking if we want to die? You didn’t read it Clean up the blood on those Tang people? As long as I just said no, our blood will be splashed on them!"

All the Hu merchants were silent, no one said anything, after a while someone whispered: "That half of the house must have too much gold and silver, right? Mr. Cao can bargain!"

"Bargaining?" Cao Yena sneered, "I have iron on my body and iron in my hands. What do you have? Why do you bargain? You want to pay less. They killed us all. Everything in the temple belongs to them." , and then burned the temple with a torch, and we went underground, how can we face Mingzun?"

"Even if what you said is reasonable, but so much gold and silver are gone, I don't see how you would deposit gold and silver in the temple to explain to the believers!" Someone said coldly.

"Don't worry, I will explain this to the old man!" Cao Ye looked confident: "This time in the chaos in Chang'an, other merchants were all robbed, and our lives were not saved. Not only were we saved Well, the goods stored here have not lost a bit, only half of the gold and silver have been lost, and the remaining half has been kept. If anyone feels that he has suffered a loss in such a catastrophe, just come to me, Cao Ye, and I will take care of it. Nona deal with it!"

After hearing Cao Yena's words, all the Hu merchants' expressions changed slightly.They can be in this temple, they are naturally the upper class of Hu merchants.As Cao Yena said, letting Wang Wenzuo take away half of the treasury of gold and silver is a huge loss, but it depends on who you compare with. The other merchants in Chang'an City lost not only gold and silver, but also their lives and property.Under these circumstances, who can blame them for their ineffectiveness?They can even say that they are meritorious and pass on their losses to other Hu merchants, and no one dares to say that they are wrong.

"What Mr. Cao said is true, what I said just now was really abrupt!" one person said in a deep voice.

"Yes, if half a quarter of an hour ago, someone offered to exchange a treasury of gold and silver for our lives and temples, how could we not agree?"

"What Cao Gong said is indeed fair. Besides, what the Tang people took away now is only a load of gold and a load of silver, and the rest is just an IOU. Calculated in this way, our loss is actually insignificant!"

"Not bad!"

In a blink of an eye, all the Hu merchants had smiles on their faces, and they were amiable, not at all as before.Cao Sengnu harbored contempt in his heart, and said coldly: "My uncle is a little tired, everyone, step aside, let my uncle go to the back to rest!"

Back in the backyard, Cao Sengnu supported Cao Yena to sit down, patted Cao Yena's back lightly and said: "Uncle, don't be angry with these shameless villains!"

"That's all!" Cao Ye said with a smile: "Seng Nu, how could I be angry with them, in fact, we are all the same, we are all merchants who see profit and forget righteousness, in other words, we are all villains, but we have different positions. "

"uncle!"

"Stop talking, don't stay here with me, go to Wang Sima's side and wait for his orders!"

"Wang Sima? Why, he just asked for such a large sum of money from us!"

"Don't you understand? Something like this happened in Chang'an City. We were in a desperate situation. We prayed for help in front of Mingzun. He was the first one to rush to West Market!"

"Uncle, you said that Wang Sima was sent by Mingzun?" Cao Sengnu's face changed slightly.

"That's right, it should be said that it is someone who is favored by Ming Zun! Isn't it normal for Ming Zun's money to be given to someone who Ming Zun favors?" Cao Yena laughed.It turns out that the Sogdians believed in Zoroastrianism, and most of their commercial trade and remittance deposits were under the witness and protection of their main god, Ahura Mazda, who was called Mingzun by Cao Yena. Theoretically, the gold and silver deposited under the temple The goods are also Mingzun's property.

"Uncle, that Wang Sima is from the Tang Dynasty, how could he be the one favored by Ming Zun?"

"Then let me ask you, who did you follow when you asked General Jin to build the temple?"

"This—" Cao Sengnu was dumbfounded for a while, and then replied after a while: "It was recommended by this Wang Sima, but I also gave him a lot of benefits, and returned the favor!"

"Hahaha!" Cao Yena laughed: "Mengnu, Mingzun's wisdom is infinite, how much can we mortals understand? Just follow Mingzun's instructions, go! Listen to that king. Sima's order, serve him sincerely, just like serving me!"

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In the corridor outside the Zoroastrian temple, tired soldiers sat on the steps in twos and threes, took off their helmets, drank water, gnawed on dry food, wrapped up their wounds, and some even untied their breastplates to relieve their swollen shoulders. and neck comfort.In the small square not far away, there were corpses lying around, but this did not affect their appetite.People eat, drink, talk and laugh, as if they are in the backyard full of flowers in Jinfu.

The heavy steps of the porter caught the attention of the soldiers. They stood up one after another, looking curiously at the two rattan boxes that the porter brought out, and guessed what was inside.

"Hey! Guess what's on your head?"

"I don't know, but it should be heavy! Look at that mulberry pole, it's bent like this!"

"That's right, look at that porter, his arms and legs are shaking so badly!"

"Could it be all gold and silver? Do you remember what Wang Sima said before? There are hundreds of millions of gold and silver in the temple. After breaking the thief, we can all become rich!"

"I'm afraid things are not that simple. Not to mention that these Hu merchants are misers, how can they give out so much gold and silver so easily? Even if they are rewarded, the battle is not over yet. How could they be rewarded halfway through the battle?"

"That's true, but it would be great if there were rewards here. Even if it's copper coins, these two boxes are full of copper coins. We can get three or five coins for each of the hundreds of people!"

"You don't need to worry about that. Wang Sima is not a stingy person. After this battle, we will definitely have three or five successes. Not to mention anything else, we saved the lives of these Hu merchants, and they must not shed any blood. ?”

"According to me, just kill all these Hu merchants, and push the matter to those thieves outside, wouldn't it be enough? Wang Sima eats meat, and we can also drink some soup!"

(End of this chapter)