royal robes

Chapter 692 Silk and Jade
Tian Ya grasped the priest's chest with both hands, then stood upside down on the priest's chest, a wave of true energy slowly entered the priest's chest.A Westerner like the priest doesn't know how to use his zhenqi at all, and Tian Ya deliberately guides his zhenqi to flow through the priest's body.As long as these qi are forced to circulate in the priest's body for a few weeks, let alone the current illness, the priest's body will be similar to that of a young man within a few years.

Zong Dao said: "Father's body is relatively weak, and Tian Ya can only input slowly. It seems that it will take a little time. Sister Xingyue, go get a snow lotus and stew some meat for them to eat. It seems that this person has also suffered a lot. bitter."

Everyone else in the same caravan was fine, but the priest and his bodyguards were doing very poorly.All they ate were dry bread and water, and little else to eat.They exchanged almost all their money for goods, hoping to contribute more to the Lord.Two people pulled four camel carts, which were full of silk and spices, not even porcelain.

The reason is simple. Porcelain is easy to be broken, and the loss of breaking a piece of porcelain is unbearable for them.So just buy silk and spices, these things will not break.In fact, there is very little silk, mainly spices, because that is what they need most, and it is also the cheapest thing in the Central Plains.As for the silk, it is a gift for the bishops. The bishop hopes to use the silk from the Central Plains to make holy clothes, which will make them shine.

Dugu Xingyue immediately went to make preparations, and stewed the snow lotus that was about to dry and some fresh mutton.The nutritional value of stew is always the highest, and it can guarantee the effective substances of food to the greatest extent.

The bodyguards on the side just watched. Although they didn't know the structure of their behavior, they knew very well that they were trying to save the priest, because the priest's face gradually improved... It's amazing. For this bodyguard, this is simply a miracle.

If a seriously ill person is not given bloodletting or medicine, why should he look better?Western medical skills are very poor, and the medicine is also very amateurish. The main treatment method is bloodletting.If bloodletting doesn't cure a person, there's almost nothing left to do but wait for him to fend for himself.

For this bodyguard, if the priest died, it was a response to God's call, and if the priest survived, it was a gift from God, and there was nothing else.

After the mutton was stewed, the priest also woke up.In fact, the priest did not recognize Zong Xin at first glance, because in the eyes of Westerners, Easterners look alike.However, if you look closely, there are still some differences, especially a very obvious mark on Zong Xin's forehead, a scar like a comma, which is the only proof that the priest recognized Zong Xin.

The priest's fatigue and pain during this period completely disappeared, he was full of energy, and felt comfortable all over his body.After eating Dugu Xingyue's stew again... the two of them were so happy that they almost cried out. It has been several months since they had a decent meal. Expansive and full of energy.

"Thank you, thank you. It's been a long time since I had a decent meal." The priest's tone was still very strange, but as long as he could understand it, it would be great.

Zong said: "Let's go."

At this time, almost all the merchants had already left outside the gate of Xizhou City, heading for the small town outside the city.The priest and his bodyguards have fully recovered their physical strength, and they are chasing the large troops with their camel carts.The priest's current physical condition is very good. After Tianya's true energy circulated in his body for a few weeks, the meridians throughout his body became unobstructed, and his old problems for many years completely disappeared. Moreover, Tianya's true energy still remained in his body. These true energy has been running automatically. It will take a long time to completely disappear. During this time, the priest will have more physical strength than usual.

The bodyguard has always been in good health, and has fully recovered after eating a good meal.And now that he doesn't have to take care of the priest, he is more than half relaxed.This bodyguard doesn't look like an ordinary person, but his martial arts are very different from Zhongyuan, so he doesn't understand what happened.

The group soon came to a small town outside Xizhou City. Naturally, the town was far less prosperous than Xizhou City, but it had everything it should have.It's just that there was only one inn in the small town, and it couldn't accommodate so many people. Even if they came here, they had to camp.

However, business can be carried out here. Surprisingly, there are a lot of jade for sale here, and the merchants are also very satisfied with it. Xizhou jade is also called Kunlun jade, which was first produced in Kunlun Mountain, hence the name.The top-quality Kunlun mutton fat jade is white in color and soft in texture, warm and delicate. It is a good material for seals and even jade seals.

In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, white was the most precious, and the emperor's dragon robes were all white.Therefore, Kunlun jade was highly praised in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and until today, Kunlun jade is still the leader among jade, and the most valuable is the top white jade produced in Xizhou.

Zong Xin glanced at Bai Yu, and then said, "Bai Yu, how did your master give you a name?"

Baiyu said awkwardly: "I have quite a few people with the surname Bai, and there are also many people with jade in their names. It's normal. When I arrive in Xizhou, I must buy the best piece of white jade. Don't grab it from me."

No one would rob her in the first place, her name is Baiyu, of course the best white jade will be given to her, no one will have such selfishness.Anyway, Zong Xin has a lot of money, and the money he got from the black shop is several boxes. There is no place to spend money along the way. Of course, they have to spend it in a big city like Xizhou. How can there be any white jade? Why not?

This town is called Hetian Town, and Hetian means suet in Hui language, which means that the suet jade here is the best.This small town is the origin of jade, and it is even cheaper to buy jade here than in Xizhou City.

In fact, there are dozens of small towns near Xizhou City, Zong Xin just chose one at random, unexpectedly, he chose the most suitable place for this group of businessmen.Now there is no need to enter Xizhou City at all. If it is not possible, it is also possible to bring these silks back to the Central Plains. There is no need to pay such a high tax for entering the city.

Within a few hours after entering the town, the business here started, and the whole town was buzzing with people.

Businessmen in Xizhou City couldn't help but go to Hotan Town to sell jade and buy silk.In fact, these merchants had wanted to come for a long time, but the city gate officials and the soldiers guarding the city were watching, just to squeeze more money from the merchants in the Central Plains, so they were explicitly not allowed to trade outside the city.

But now in the small town of Hotan, these merchants don't care about so many. If all the good goods are bought by others, then this opportunity to make a fortune will be wasted.They rushed towards Hetian Town like hungry wolves, and even the soldiers guarding the city couldn't stop them.

The situation immediately reversed, and the Xizhou city guard had no choice but to watch the group of businessmen leave Xizhou after the transaction was completed unless they really wanted to steal it.They no longer need to go to the city to trade, so even the money to go to the city is saved. For these businessmen, that is a good thing.

In fact, the biggest purpose of the Silk Road is not export, but import.Whether silk or spices, porcelain or tea, there are too many in the Central Plains, and only a very small part is exported.These things are extremely precious and valuable in the eyes of people in the Western Regions, but people in the Central Plains think that these things are not enough to meet their needs. Their real purpose is to import jade.

The value of jade in the Central Plains is far higher than that of gold, while the value of jade in the Western Regions is very low.Therefore, what merchants in the Central Plains desire most is jade. It doesn't matter if the silk and porcelain on these carts cannot be sold.Anyway, these things are still sold when they are moved back to the Central Plains, but much cheaper.

If it can be sold here, of course it is a good thing.But it doesn't matter if it can't be sold, because the loss is not with the merchants in the Central Plains, but with the countries in the Western Regions.Since the Uyghurs were not benevolent, the Central Plains merchants were naturally also unrighteous. They only talked about the jade business from the beginning to the end, and never mentioned the silk and porcelain business.

Even Zong Xin did not expect such a situation, happiness came too suddenly.But this group of businessmen should turn back to the Central Plains from here, and those who really want to go west... Apart from Zong Xin and his party, there are only the priest and his bodyguards.

Zong Xin also saw the temper of the merchants in the Central Plains. As long as they did not transport silk and porcelain to the Western Regions, only the Uighurs would suffer in the future.These merchants can come to the Western Regions with only empty cars, buy jade from here, and then return to the Central Plains.

For the Uighurs, the price of jade is not high, because this is the place of origin, and these jade can only be sold to merchants in the Central Plains, only they appreciate these things.If the merchants in the Central Plains did not come to buy these jades, they might not continue to mine them.

The Central Plains merchants showed the Uighurs how powerful they are, and just now they wanted to beg the city guard to let them in.But now, the confidence of the merchants in the Central Plains came out at once. It is no problem to talk about the jade business. It is not a problem to talk about how much money I gave, but to talk about other businesses... Get lost.

Xizhou City is discussing how to make these Central Plains businessmen compromise and make them willing to pay to enter the city.Unexpectedly, bad news came one after another. The merchants in Xizhou City were too bad-tempered, and people from the Central Plains actually went to Hetian Town to buy jade directly. This is extremely bad news.

After a long silence, Ali Musa said: "What should we do now? There are only two options. Either we send troops to destroy all the merchants in the Central Plains directly. Find someone to discuss with their leaders whether to give money or go to war. Although the two countries are fighting without killing, these people are not here. They are just businessmen. I have never heard of the two countries fighting without killing businessmen. What's more... The Uighurs and the Central Plains did not confront each other, so we can kill them at will."

Many people present are hesitant, because this matter cannot be justified.He can be shameless alone, but the whole nation cannot be so shameless for a little thing.Others traveled long distances to the Uighurs to do business, but the Uighurs killed them all in order to seize their goods...

No matter how shameless the regime is, it can't do this kind of thing. This completely cuts off all diplomatic channels of the Uyghur, and no one will come to the Uyghur to do business in the future.Although everyone is eager for the silk, porcelain and spices of the Central Plains, but they can’t get the reputation of killing merchants for these things. Not only will the surrounding countries laugh at Uighurs, but when the critical time comes, they will only attack, never Will help, because the Uighurs are too shameless.

(End of this chapter)