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Chapter 255 Trading Coarse Salt
A stone of grain is not the same thing as a stone of coarse salt.

A stone of grain can feed a grown man for three months.

But a stone of coarse salt may not be enough for a grown man to eat for seven or eight years.

When Duke Lu read out the demands of Xiliang people, Liang Zhenhai cursed directly, "It's unreasonable, the lion opened its mouth!"

Duke Lu's face turned cold, and he ordered, "Where's the pen and ink?"

He directly picked up the pen and wrote a line of words on the paper. After the handwriting dried, he handed it to Ji Sibo, "You can shoot back the arrows they shot just now."

When Duke Lu handed the note to Ji Sibo, the people of Xiliang watched the whole process. When Ji Sibo bent his bow and set his arrow, the general of Xiliang felt his heart skip a beat.

Ji Sibo let go, and the Xiliang general was so frightened that he urged his horse to dodge. The arrow passed straight past the horse. The horse was frightened and ran straight away, and the arrow shot into the Xiliang army. In order to avoid the arrow, many Xiliang soldiers staggered and dodged, and finally stopped the speed of shooting under the knife of a Xiliang soldier with sharp eyes and quick hands.

The soldiers of General Da Qi who saw this scene also burst into loud laughter. Many soldiers still looked at Ji Sibo with admiration, feeling very relieved.

The Xiliang general calmed down the horse with great difficulty, and returned to the front of the formation out of breath, glanced at Ji Sibo angrily, and cursed inwardly as a jerk.

He took the small note handed to him by the soldier, unfolded it, and realized that he couldn't read Zhongyuan characters, and then looked down at the Daqi man, "You, read the words written on it."

The man caught it tremblingly, and stammered: "One liter of coarse salt is exchanged for 100 people."

The general of Xiliang was so angry that his face turned purple, and he cursed: "One liter is only one catty two taels, and a hundred people want to exchange one catty two taels of coarse salt? You are kidding me!"

He turned around and looked at Duke Lu, and shouted loudly, "Commander of Daqi, you exchange a hundred people for one liter of coarse salt. Don't you sincerely want to save your people's lives!"

There was a slight commotion on Daqi's side, but the soldiers just looked at Lu Guogong quietly, because they also knew that coarse salt was an extremely important material for both Daqi and Xiliang.

The Duke of Lu criticized sharply: "You lions are so open, a hundred people want to exchange a stone of coarse salt, and the coarse salt in our army is not enough to exchange, you are not sincere!"

He spoke loudly about the demands of the Xiliang people, and pointed out that even if there was coarse salt in the army, the quantity was not much, so that the soldiers would understand his choice.

The Xiliang general was angry and said dissatisfiedly, "No, we don't agree with this amount!"

This morning the commander-in-chief sent someone to count the number of people in Dingxiang City. Although he didn't know the exact number, he still knew that many Daqi people who died of starvation had been abandoned outside the city in the past few days. How many people are alive.

If according to Duke Lu's bargaining, it takes 1 people to exchange for one stone of coarse salt, wouldn't it be possible for the people of the whole city to exchange for only a dozen stones of coarse salt?What can it do?

Duke Lu knew that he would not agree to it, so he bargained, and when he returned the price, he waited for the other party to bargain.

So Duke Lu shouted again: "Then how many people do you think is suitable for a liter of rice?"

The Xiliang general didn't bother to write a small note with Lu Guogong anymore, so he said directly, "Two hundred people exchange one stone of coarse salt."

Duke Lu sneered, "Eighty common people exchange for one liter of coarse salt."

The Xiliang general quit immediately, "Four hundred people exchange one stone of coarse salt!"

Lu Guogong: "65 common people exchange for one liter of coarse salt."

The Xiliang general blushed and was angry. He used stones as his unit, and Lu Guogong used promotion as his unit. Can this be the same?

"Eight hundred common people, for a stone of coarse salt!" The Xiliang general blushed and shouted loudly.

Lu Guogong said with an expression on his face: "Fifty common people exchange for one liter of coarse salt."

The Xiliang general's face turned from red to purple, "A thousand common people will be exchanged for a stone of coarse salt."

After some haggling, the Duke of Lu shouted, "Thirty common people will exchange for one liter of coarse salt."

Afterwards, the Xiliang general called the price three more times, but Duke Lu still insisted on the price of '[-] common people for one liter of coarse salt'.

The Xiliang general's face was blue and red, and he could tell that this was Duke Lu's final bottom line.

In other words, only three thousand people can get a stone of coarse salt, which is completely inconsistent with their initial prediction.

But now the Duke of Lu has an attitude of 'if you don't agree, the deal will be void'. The general of Xiliang thought that there was not much coarse salt left in the army, so he had no choice but to agree.

"Okay, just as you said, three thousand people will exchange for one stone of coarse salt."

The general of Xiliang comforted himself that the people in Dingxiang City originally had 10,000+ people, which can be exchanged for nearly 20 shi of coarse salt, which is enough for their [-] troops to consume for a month.

As for a month later.
The general of Xiliang glanced at Feng Hao, and a ferocious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Maybe a month later, even Yanmen Pass would be theirs. How could it be so short of coarse salt?

Duke Lu thought blankly, if it wasn't for a plan, he would never have exchanged [-] people for a shi of coarse salt for Xiliang people.

The two parties agreed to hand over the people with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, and when the people were handed over, the Xiliang army would have to retreat a distance of twenty feet.

The Duke of Lu ordered people to carry the coarse salt up to the tower, piled it so high that it protruded, pointed to the sack and said, "This is full of coarse salt, here are the things, where are the people in Dingxiang City?"

The Xiliang general waved his hand, and the Xiliang soldiers behind him gave way to a large road, and the emaciated people of Daqi were pushed and shoved away by the Xiliang soldiers.

Liang Zhenhai led the Yanshan army out of the city to suppress the battle. The two armies faced each other silently. After Ji Sibo led his men to count the [-] people, he waved his hand to the tower, and the city gate was opened. Hundreds of soldiers escorted the three Thousands of people entered the city, and a stone of coarse salt immediately fell from the city wall.

Soldiers of the Yanshan Army sent coarse salt to the open space between the two sides, and soldiers from Xiliang took it away.

The Xiliang general nodded slightly to the soldier. The soldier took out a dagger, carefully cut a hole, dipped the tip of the dagger with a little coarse salt, carefully scraped it off, put it in his mouth and tasted it, which made the soldier wrinkle his whole body. He opened his face, but nodded happily, "General, it's coarse salt!"

So according to this transaction method, the transaction was completed between the two parties, and in the end it was two stones more than the crude salt estimated by the Xiliang general.

After the transaction was over, the Xiliang general led the army back, and Liang Zhenhai also led the Yanshan army back to the city.

Duke Lu Guo looked at the back of the Xiliang army going away, and a smile of determination was raised on the corner of his mouth, "Very well, just wait for the prey to fall into the trap."

　Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone~~~
　　
　
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