Volume 1 A Hundred Battles and Yellow Sand Wear Gold Armor Chapter 55 The Rich King Comes
Wang Junlin was originally dressed as a Turk, and when the horn sounded at night, the tribe was in chaos, and no one knew what the assassin looked like, and the Turkic soldiers thought it was an assassin just staring at who left the tribe. But Wang Junlin didn't leave at all, but took advantage of the chaos to sneak into a tent area where Han merchants lived, where someone answered, and after he was led into the tent by a person, he quickly untied his clothes and stripped naked into the bed......
Regardless of the relationship between the Turks and the Great Sui, the merchant groups organized by the Han Chinese were always the most popular type of people among the Turks, because these people were able to bring the Turks the necessities of the Turkic people's life, such as ironware, porcelain, silk, grain, and other luxuries needed by the Turkic nobles, and at the same time, the cattle and sheep skins they had accumulated and other animal skins they had hunted, as well as some herbs they had collected that were unique to the steppe or the Western Regions, could be exchanged for goods or money brought by the caravans.
Therefore, even in a life-and-death war like last year, the Turks have never harmed the Han merchant groups in the past, and there have been some short-sighted Turkic people who robbed the merchant groups in the past, but they were all punished by the Turkic Khan with extremely cruel means, and even directly exterminated the clan in serious cases.
After that, the Turks seldom robbed the Han merchants, and showed great enthusiasm for the arrival of the Han merchants, and in fact the so-called hospitality of the Turks also spread from these merchants.
Therefore, as long as there is no conclusive evidence, Wang Junlin does not have to worry about being exposed, not to mention that Kurunubi has never suspected the merchant group at all. When this plan was made at that time, the reason why he chose to assassinate Kurunubi instead of Tongye Hu Khan and Ashina was also due to the fact that the former was much weaker than the latter two bigwigs, and his personality was easy to be impulsive.
In addition, this merchant group was originally made by Wang Junlin, and it was not temporarily formed before he sent an envoy to the Western Turks, but he formed this merchant group as early as half a year ago, and first inquired for him about various information about the Western Turks and the Western Regions; Secondly, it is naturally to make money and make profits.
Doing business with Turkic people who didn't have much arithmetic and business acumen was originally profitable, not to mention that this merchant group could also go to the Western Regions and take the Silk Road to do business. You must know that the Silk Road is called the gold trade route, but it is not said casually, as long as a porcelain or silk in the Central Plains is transported to Central Asian countries such as Persia in the Western Regions, it will be a hundredfold profit.
Therefore, the caravan that Wang Junlin was in was originally his own people inside and out. In addition, the caravan had often done business with the Kurunubi tribe before, so it was considered a familiar customer, so it would naturally receive great courtesy.
In short, Wang Junlin will not only be in no danger when he stays in Khurunubi, but will also live well.
Wang Junlin's mansion raised more than 300 retired veterans as guards, half of whom were arranged by Wang Junlin to act as the guards of the merchant group, and at that time, there were some merchants who were plundered by Tuyuhun among the displaced people in Gaotai City, Wang Junlin carefully selected more than ten people, and secretly subdued them to form this caravan.
In addition, there are more than 200 craftsmen of all kinds among the displaced people, all of whom Wang Junlin unceremoniously gathered into his own mansion and raised them, under the personal training of Wang Junlin, the backyard of the mansion is like a production factory, and nearly half of the products in the merchant group are from here.
For example, porcelain is actually fired by these craftsmen in Wang Junlin's mansion, although the process is much rougher than that of the Central Plains porcelain family, and it is considered an inferior product in the hands of the Han people, and it must not be looked down upon, and some of the nobles of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions are not looked down upon, but ordinary people need it very much! Who doesn't need a bowl to eat.
Nowadays, in the large and small tribes of the Western Turks, nearly a quarter of the herdsmen have used the large bowls produced in the Wangjun's mansion, not to mention other tables, stools, stoves, etc., and the most important thing in the Wangjun's mansion is carpenters and blacksmiths.
Even the fifty women who treated the wounded soldiers and served as nurses at that time did not have a day to eat, after all, there was no one in Wang Junlin's family, how could so many people need to serve, so Wang Junlin directly hired two doctors with acceptable medical skills, and after personally imparting some training to them, he divided twenty women to become nurses and opened the first hospital of the Great Sui Dynasty, called Wang's Hospital.
Although this hospital was opened in the border town of Gaotai City, it actually has epoch-making significance. Like all new things since ancient times, it caused a lot of people to make irresponsible remarks behind their backs at first, but under Wang Junlin's famous murder, no one dared to make trouble, and after a long time, people will naturally appreciate the benefits of this kind of hospital treatment.
Nowadays, patients in Gaotaicheng go to Wang's Hospital as long as they are sick, and there is no other reason - "good quality and low price", the consultation fee is not much, it is easier to see the disease than other doctors, not to mention, there is a gentle and considerate service that makes everyone comfortable, especially some male patients, who will go to Wang's Hospital when they are sick, and even have "otaku" who are reluctant to be discharged when they are well and moaning about a small illness in order to be hospitalized.
For this situation, as long as they are willing to pay money, Wang's Hospital will naturally receive it, and later there are not enough wards and beds, and Wang Junlin only ordered to increase the hospitalization fee, and he did not think about expanding the scale, after all, Gaotai City is just a small city, and there are not many people.
At that time, Wang Junlin took in so many displaced people to his own house, Wu San, Wu Si, Zhou Hu and others were still worried that they would eat down Wang Junlin's military salary, and even worried that Wang Junlin would deduct the soldiers' military salaries, but no one thought that it was these people who made Wang Junlin a rich man in just half a year.
As a person who has mastered the advanced knowledge of the development of thousands of years in later generations, in fact, Wang Junlin still has a lot of tricks in his mind that can make money, but he knows that in this era, even if a businessman has too much money, he can lose it overnight in the face of power and force, and even without the identity and force to match it, having too much money means that a catastrophe is coming. Therefore, he will make money, but he will definitely not earn money that does not match his status and power.
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The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, the Turks got up and began to draw water, to make food for themselves, and to feed their horses, oxen, and sheep. Then something big happened to the Western Turkic royal court tribe and the Ashina tribe.
There are 40,000 or 50,000 war horses and 100,000 cattle and sheep in the Wangting tribe that have begun to have diarrhea, and more than 70,000 herdsmen and tens of thousands of war horses and 100,000 cattle and sheep in the Ashina tribe have fallen ill.
In the king's tent, Tongye Hu Khan changed the two maids of Princess Xinyi last night to taste it, and he was satisfied in the morning, but after hearing the news, he was immediately full of anger and said viciously: "Ashina, this bastard, Ben Khan hasn't made a move yet, I didn't expect this bastard to dare to take the lead in casting such a poisonous plan." ”
King Bodo also rushed over when he heard the news and said: "Khan, could it be that the Sui people did it, in order to sow discord and make us Turks have internal friction." ”
Tongye Hu Khan said: "The two thousand five hundred Sui Dynasty generals who came with the Sui envoy have been under our close surveillance, I have already asked just now, and none of them came out of the account last night. ”
King Potofa's eyes flashed, and he had a guess in his heart, but he didn't say it, just nodded, and instead followed the words of Tongye Hu Khan: "There are only two people around us, Ashina and Kurunubi, Kurunubi don't have this brain, and yesterday we just learned that Ashina has a secret recipe that can poison many animals, but today's thing happened, it seems that it can only be done by Ashina." ”
Tongye Hu Khan gritted his teeth and said: "National Teacher, I must slaughter Ashina's bastard thing, 50,000 war horses and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep are wasted like this, this number is still increasing, only by gathering soldiers and horses, destroying Ashina, and getting his tribe, can we make up for our losses and eliminate my anger." ”
After a slight hesitation, King Bodo said with a murderous expression: "Originally, I thought that after the Sui envoy left, I would come to deal with Ashina and Kurunubi, but since they have already made a move, then immediately gather troops and horses and kill these infidels!" Remember, if you go ahead, you must kill the Bon gurus and capture their three holy women alive. ”
As soon as Tong Ye Hu heard that King Bodo agreed to send troops, he was immediately overjoyed, according to his character, he had long wanted to fight, and as the first warrior of the Western Turks, he had never put Ashina in his eyes, not to mention Kurunubi, but King Bodo had always said that it was necessary to try slowly to avoid losing both, and he was worried that the Great Sui would take the opportunity to send troops, so he had to make peace with the Great Sui first. Now that the Sui Dynasty has done what should have been done, and Ashina is looking for death by himself, he must not be able to endure it any longer.
The order to summon the chiefs of the tribes and the commanders of the tribes was soon passed down, and it was not long before the sound of the trumpet of the army echoed in the court of the Western Turks. Because it was difficult to maintain secrecy between the Turkic tribes, the Turks either did not fight, but as soon as they decided to fight, they would kill the enemy as quickly as possible before they had time to gather their men and horses.
At the same time, a similar scene also happened in the Ashina tribe, but because his own strength was not as good as that of the Unified Protector Khan, Ashina did not immediately send troops to the Western Turkic royal court, but convened a meeting of the various tribal leaders and commanders under him to unify his thoughts and prepare for a tough battle, and at the same time sent an envoy to the Kurunubi tribe to persuade the latter that the two families should unite to deal with the Tongyehu Khan.
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Wang Junlin slept peacefully at night, and when he woke up in the morning, he was already dressed as a businessman.
After eating early, Wang Junlin walked out of the tent, stood on the edge of the merchant group's station, and secretly observed the reaction of the Kurunubi tribe, and found that the other party had really begun to gather soldiers and horses, gather grain and grass, and knew that his plan had succeeded, and Khurunubi was ready to start a big war.