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"What shall I call you, my friend?" Tuli stood there, looking the 'Hu Man' up and down in front of him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info A bearded bearded man smiled and said, "Respected Second Khan, the younger one is named Shi Jian. ”

"Shi Jian, surnamed Shi?" Tuli glanced at the bearded man a few more times, "Could it be that you are a Sogdian?" ”

"The Khan is really very wise, the little one is the Sogdians, the Zhaowu Shiguo, once lived in the city of broken leaves, and then came to the Central Plains with his father when he was young, and he has been staying in the Central Plains to run a business, and the Han people call us Xinghu." The bearded man said that he spoke first in Turkic and then in Sogdian.

Tuli looked like this, nodded, and relaxed his vigilance a little.

The Turks were no strangers to the Sogdians, who were regarded by him as Hu in the eyes of the Turks. In the Western Regions, there are Zhaowu nine surnames, Cao, Shi, Kang and other countries, all used to be Yue's people, used to live in Zhaowu City in the north of Qilian Mountain, and then was broken by the Xiongnu, then the west over the green ridge, the branch of each king, with Zhaowu as the clan, there are nine surnames such as Kang, An, Shi, Mi, etc., so it is called Zhaowu nine surnames.

Because the nine surnames of Zhaowu are on the Silk Road, they are also the best at doing business.

They were known for their ability to do business, and for a long time they manipulated the resale trade along the Silk Road, and as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luoyang had a Sogdian Jiahu.

Over the centuries, Sogdian merchants began with small-scale business and stood out in competition with Indian merchants and Bactrian merchants. Under the protection of the Turks, it connected Byzantium in the west and China in the east, and established an extensive commercial network in the Eurasian steppe from Crimea to the Samhan Peninsula.

These Sogdians were the bearers of trade between the East and the West, as well as between nomadic and agrarian peoples.

It can be said that the Sogdian merchants were the most famous merchants of this era, and they were also the most successful merchant groups, comparable to the Jewish merchants of later generations.

Whether in the Turkic steppes, in the Western Regions, or in the Central Plains, Sogdian merchants were ubiquitous, and seemed to be at home everywhere.

As early as the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were immigrant tribes established by the nine surnames of Zhaowu in Guzang and other places.

There are settlements with the nine surnames of Zhaowu in Shaye, Puchanghai, Yizhou, Dunhuang, Suzhou, Liangzhou, Chang'an, Lantian, Luoyang, and Hebei in the north of Guannei Road.

In the interior of the Central Plains, many Zhaowu nine surnamed Hu scattered all over the country, and their inhabitants often had their own leaders, called large and small leaders, and even had their own city lords during the war, such as Yizhou.

The Sogdians were known for their ability to do business, and on the Silk Road Sogdian merchants did big business.

They formed settlements along the Silk Road, bringing in luxury goods, precious metals, people, livestock, and transporting silk.

The Sogdians did business, they all formed caravans, stopped in one place, formed settlements, the leader of the caravan was called Sabao, they left a pull, and then went forward, forming a trade network on the Silk Road.

The bearded man told the Turki Khan.

Their family used to be from the Stone Kingdom, then the family did business in Shattered Leaf City, and then he came to the Central Plains with his father when he was a teenager. Then he stayed in the Sogdian settlements of the Central Plains, where he lived and grew up.

Sogdian merchants also had many trade groups, and their family ran a trade group, and his father came to the Central Plains and later went all the way to Luoyang, and then used it as a base camp to spread trade in all directions of the Central Plains to develop their family business.

"What kind of business does your family do?" Tuli smiled and asked the bearded man to sit down, then poured him a glass of wine and poured himself another glass.

The bearded man took the wine and said thank you respectfully.

"There are still many people in our family in Xiaye, there are my uncle and brother over there, they are responsible for organizing the transportation of goods to the Central Plains, mainly gold, silver and copper, etc., as well as spices, medicinal materials, and the other is a little girl and a little boy, why are there so many orchids in Chang'an and Luoyang City, these are all obtained by our Sogdian merchant group."

The bearded man told Tuli that they bought little girls and boys in Byzantium, Persia and other places, and then selected them and sent them to the Central Plains, where they were trained for a few more years, and when they grew up, they became the orchids and servants who were deeply loved by the nobles of the Central Plains.

The goods transported from the broken leaves will be transported to Luoyang, Chang'an, and the bearded man is the person in charge here. Then he poured silk out of the broken leaves, and also sold some tea, porcelain, etc.

According to the bearded man, their family was engaged in this kind of trade between the East and the West. In fact, the silk tea sold in the Central Plains was not sold in the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, but to empires such as Persia and Byzantium.

This Turk knows that there is a very important reason why the Western Turks have been able to go from a branch of the Turks over the years, to later compete with the suzerain, and now to become the lord of the Turks, that is, the Western Turks conquered the Zhaowu Nine surnames and then controlled the Silk Road. He controlled the Silk Road, provided the Western Turks with great wealth, and even became an important weight for him to balance Persia and Byzantium.

This bearded Shi Jian is a Sabao.

Behind every Sabao stands a large business group. A business group, at least hundreds of people, has strong strength. For example, the Shi Jian family is no longer an ordinary merchant group, their family has a base camp at the east and west ends of Broken Leaf in the Western Regions and Luoyang in the Central Plains, with several large caravans, constantly going back and forth between Luoyang and Broken Leaf, reselling and trafficking precious goods.

Their trade routes were thousands of miles, passing through many dangerous areas, and along the way the black and white roads were very well related and unimpeded.

These people even had a good relationship with local governments, such as the Tang Dynasty court, which had a good relationship with many Sogdian merchants in the Central Plains, and they would even donate to the imperial court frequently.

At this time, Tuli no longer doubted Shi Jian's identity as Sogdian Sabao, but he still had some doubts, this Sabao didn't stay in Luoyang, what did he do in this generation of north?

"The new emperor of the Tang Dynasty was a robber, and the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty was a thief. I have been in Luoyang for decades, and I have settled in Luoyang when I was in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and I have experienced Zhou Sui and Wang Shichong and others, and then to the Tang Dynasty. Although there were wars in the past, we had a good relationship with those in power, and after the Tang Dynasty took control of Luoyang, we also had a good relationship with the imperial court, and we donated a lot of money to them. But since the reign of the new emperor, our life has become more and more difficult. ”

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With Shi Jian's accusation, things are becoming clearer and clearer.

Shi Jian turned out to be a Sogdian merchant with a very high status in Luoyang, and in Luoyang, he had hundreds of subordinates, who traded every year and made a lot of profits.

But when the new emperor succeeded to the throne, all kinds of troubles came. First of all, they were levied a commercial tax that they did not have before, and they had to pay a lot of taxes a year. The Tang Dynasty government also controlled the Sogdians very strictly, and all kinds of identity checks were required, temporary residence permits were required, road guidance documents had to be applied for to pass the customs, and customs duties had to be paid.

Over the course of the year, the taxes paid have increased a lot.

What's even more infuriating is that during the catastrophe in the northern part of the Central Plains that began last year, the imperial court tried every means to ask them for money.

In the end, they were driven out of Luoyang, and they had no choice but to get to Taiyuan. But life in Taiyuan is not easy, in short, the officials of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty are all robbers.

forced them to live in the Central Plains.

"I wanted to take revenge on the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and when I heard that the Khan's army was heading south, I deliberately went out of the customs quietly, just to help the Khan."

Tuli remained silent, "How can you help?" ”

"Since I was forced to come to Taiyuan from Luoyang, I also began to seek a new trade route, originally I wanted to open up the trade route from Taiyuan to Dali Khanting, but this trade route was just opened, and the result was the war in Monan, and then the Tang army took the opportunity to occupy the territory of Jieli Khan, and we couldn't do this business anymore."

"Khan, I know that now Li Jing is guarding Mayi, and he has sent generals to guard Yanmen Pass, Loufu Pass, and Taixi Pass, and the Turkic soldiers and horses cannot cross the Great Wall for a while. I happen to have some way, and I know that there is a small road near Loufu Pass, which can secretly cross a small group of people. I am also familiar with several officials in the Loufu Pass, as long as I give them a large sum of money, I believe that they can quietly let us pass. At that time, we bribed the official to let us pass in the name of smuggling, but at that time, the Khan arranged for a small group of elites to sneak in first, and then pretend to be my subordinates, and swindle me into the city with us. ”

"We started inside, and told the Khan that the Khan would send troops to attack outside, and at that time the inside and outside should be combined, and we were not afraid that the building would not be broken. As soon as this building is broken, the defense of the Great Wall of the Tang River East Army will be broken. No matter how powerful Li Jing is, how dangerous is Yanmen Pass? ”

Tuli's breath became rapid.

If it can really be as Shi Jian said, it is really possible to take this building troublesome pass.

To go south from Mayi, you must pass through two passes, one is Yanmen Pass, and the other is Loufu Pass.

Lou Fu Pass is also a dangerous pass, guarding an important valley channel, although not as dangerous as Yanmen, after passing the customs can not go straight to Taiyuan as after crossing Yanmen, or go to Ulzhou Tonghebei, but if you can break the Lou Fu, the south gate is also open.

"What do you want?" Tuli asked. Everyone in the world knows that the Sogdians are the best at doing business, the best at doing business. He didn't believe that this Shi Jian just wanted to take revenge on the Tang Dynasty emperor, so he came to lead the way for him to take the risk.

If Shi Jian dared to tell him what he had just done, what kind of revenge or something, Tuli planned to directly pull this group of people out and cut them down.

"Khan, I have only one request, I hope that Khan will make me a merchant with Khan. When the Khan invades Hedong, the spoils of war can be sold to me. ”

Hearing this request, Tuli smiled.

Following behind a large army and being a merchant with the army, of course, it will be very profitable. The purchase price of silk, gold, silver, etc., which the soldiers looted, would be very cheap, and such a business would be quite profitable.

But in this way, it made Tuli believe that this person was worth believing.

"Is there really such a path, do you really have someone in the Loufu Pass who can let you enter the Guancheng?"

"Of course, the Great Khan can send a team of elites to follow this retinue of mine back."

"What about you?" Tuli asked.

Shi Jian smiled, "I'll stay here with Khan." ”

Tu Li smiled, so what reason did he have not to believe Shi Jian. "Okay, then it's settled, Ben Khan will leave you here to have a good chat. You can rest assured that if it is done, nothing will change what I promised you. ”

"Of course I believe in Khan." Shi Jian raised his wine glass and saluted, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have come." ”

"Hahaha, I love to hear this, come, drink!" Tuli happily raised his glass and drank it all.