Shattered Leaf City.

At the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, by the Broken Leaf River.

Backed by thousands of meters of snowy peaks and hot springs in the mountains, it is a good location with a pleasant climate in the Western Regions, and it is also the most important and prosperous commercial city among the four towns in Anxi.

The entire Broken Leaf City is at least nearly sixty kilometers around, but because the overall structure is built in imitation of Chang'an, it is much smaller in comparison, and it is also known as Xiaoye City.

"In such a bustling street market, the storefronts of the merchants are all occupied by Hu people?"

Just when Mo Xiaobai was busy rectifying military affairs and the Dragon Slaying Alliance had already made a plan, the first thing he did after entering the dungeon and directly descending on Broken Leaf City was to settle his men and horses......... Shopping.

She didn't come to buy anything, but wanted to explore some information about the Western Regions in the city.

On her side, Lin Hui, who was playing with the short gun in her hand, smiled: "This place is mainly dominated by the Hu people who belong to the Tang Dynasty, but they are only nominally under the dispatch of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. ”

"So the contradictions here are very deep."

"Contradiction?"

"Hmm."

Yang Yang Yang nodded while walking slowly: "For example, those Yueshi Hu people with the surname Zhaowu Jiu, they proudly earn a lot of wealth in the Western Regions, but they don't have to pay any hard work for the Western Regions, if it is you, are you red-eyed?" ”

"This, there are so many businesses in the world, they can do it, I can do it, it's a big deal to compete."

"Competition? When they competed fairly, and the Tang merchants wanted to intervene, they would use the Arabs and the Tubo to fight the Tang merchants, and when the Tubo and Arabs had done the work to ask for benefits, they turned their heads and continued to cry to the Tang Dynasty for help. ”

Yang Yang Yang swept his eyes and hung the signboard with the surname 'An' in the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and mocked: "It's just that I'm in the Tang Dynasty, and I can't do these 'small profits' with the vassal tribes, and if it gets to the court, the face of the Son of Heaven will be even more ugly." So it seems that the Western Regions are in the hands of Datang, but the annual profits of Datang may be less than half of this group of people. However, some people hold a lot of power in their own hands, and they still have rich gifts from the clan and tribe behind them, and they can't get fat if they don't want to. ”

"You mean, An Lushan?" Lin Hui raised the corners of his eyes, and somewhat understood what Yang Yang Yang was talking about, and then laughed out loud: "It is rumored that An Lushan seems to be a big fat man." ”

This is also thanks to the fact that there are pro-soldiers around him, and no strangers approach, if a few Hu people with the surname of Zhaowu Jiu hear the second daughter ridicule An Lushan like this, they will have to cause some trouble.

The two walked and strolled, and when the bustling streets came down like this, Lin Hui couldn't help but speak: "After watching it for so long, what do you think now?" Do you go directly to Talas, or find Gao Xianzhi, or daydream? ”

"There's no rush yet."

Yang Yang squinted his eyes and thought for a while, and then said: "Just that hour, those small transactions are not counted, just the big transactions, including silk, porcelain, tea and several important goods, there are six orders. I noticed their conversation, calculated that the transaction amount can reach 5,000 gold, and I also asked some hawkers just now, the price of Datang Business Travel to sell goods in the Western Regions is not very high, at most it is twice the price of Chang'an, according to that price, there is still nearly four times the profit. ”

"Quadruple profits? You mean that Chang'an's 500 gold things, Datang doubled and sold them to the Western Regions to earn 500 gold. And then the Western Regions were sold to the Arabs, but they were able to sell a thousand gold for five thousand gold? Lin Hui was a little stunned, more stunned.

The price of goods of 500 gold will increase tenfold when they arrive in the Western Regions?

How dare these Hu people sell like this!

"Arabs are crazy? Never seen tea and porcelain in your life? ”

"They're not crazy, it's these people from the Western Regions who are crazy."

Yang Yangyang's eyes were cold, and he said: "When the prime minister Li Linfu hung the name of the capital, he deliberately indulged in this. At present, although the Western Regions are prosperous, they are pathologically crazy. The Arabs will not be willing to be slaughtered like this all the time, even if they can make more money by selling things to Europa. And there must be some people in our Datang who are unwilling to watch the Hu people in the Western Regions frantically grab money, didn't Gao Xianzhi hold back? ”

"No wonder Gao Xianzhi wanted to destroy the Shi Kingdom surnamed Zhaowu Jiu, and also slaughtered almost all the nobles of the Shi Kingdom, such a robbery of money really attracts envy, jealousy and hatred." Speaking of the cause of this battle of Talas, Lin Hui knew it.

Gao Xianzhi attacked the surname Zhaowu Jiu, but missed the prince of Shi, the prince went to the Abbasid Dynasty to find a helper to take revenge, think about it, you also know that the Arabs must have been crazy at that time, and they were worried that they could not find an excuse to enter the Western Regions, and now they can send troops justifiably.

Just digging out these old accounts, Lin Hui didn't understand what it had to do with the current copy.

When Lin Hui looked at Yang Yang Yang with puzzled eyes, the corner of the female academician's mouth moved, and she said two words softly: "Interests." ”

"Regardless of whether Gao Xianzhi's recklessness and greed are wrong or not, it is certain that the interests of the Western Regions need to be re-rationally planned and distributed at the moment. Only by doing this, and re-binding this interest body, can we be considered to have a home field advantage, and can we recruit a reliable enough Hu tribe alliance, otherwise once the war is unclear, they will be the first to betray. ”

What Yang Yang Yang said is basically what happened in history, Gao Xianzhi's defeat in the first battle of Talas was like a mountain, and the rebellion of the Hu soldiers in the Western Regions under his command was indeed an important factor.

But Lin Hui felt that it was a big fuss: "You mean, these Hu people still need to be co-opted?" ”

"They were born and raised here, and their foundation is naturally here, unless they are all killed, they can only try to manage them in an orderly manner, just like the Marquis of Dingyuan did in the past."

Yang Yang Yang threw out a sentence, and then added: "What's more, in this war, our Datang forces are at a disadvantage, and the Huaxia player forces are facing eighteen national regions, and it is estimated that it is not much better, if you don't deal with the backyard, this battle will already be lost without fighting." ”

"Then do what you say, and you have a chance of winning?"

"Yes."

"How much?"

"Ten percent."

Hearing Yang Yangyang's answer without hesitation, Lin Hui stopped, and the corners of her mouth gradually became playful: "You're not joking?" ”

Yang Yang Yang shook his head: "I don't joke about business. ”

"Do you know that you look like a person now?"

"Who?"

"Daylight, dreaming!"

Lin Hui deliberately paused before saying Mo Xiaobai's ID, and then blinked and said, "Just that posture, just like him, I owe a beating." ”

"Heh~ Perhaps, let's gather like things."

Contrary to Lin Hui's expectations, Yang Yang Yang did not refute, but responded with a smile: "We are next to the battlefield, and Gao Xianzhi's soldiers and horses have not passed through here at the moment, so there is still time." Next, we're going to do three things. ”

"First, get in touch with Gao Xianzhi and Daydreaming as soon as possible; second, find out the representatives of the various forces in the Western Regions in Broken Leaf City; Third, send a vanguard to Talas to survey the terrain and the Arab army. ”

After saying the three things, Yang Yangyang's eyes looked at Lin Hui calmly, and the latter rolled his eyes and said, "Don't look at me, I'd rather go out of the city to the north to eat wind and sand, and I'm not interested in dealing with a group of Hu merchants." ”