It is very difficult to get on the road in the heavy snow.

Zhan Zhaomu Guiying and the sergeant who had been used to struggling were fine, but Wang Yun dressed like a bear, but he was still so cold that he wanted to hit the wall.

After walking for a long time, I arrived in Huanzhou. After that, I went north from Qingpingguan to Yanzhou in Xixia, and then joined an official from the Ministry of Rites in Xixia.

After passing Yanzhou, you still need to go a long way to finally reach Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of Xixia.

On the white snowy wasteland, Dalian really admires the tenacity of the people on this land. Because he could see the camp-like tent in the snow.

This is a primitive tribe at the bottom. There are no such groups in the Song Dynasty, but there are also places such as Xixia, Liao, and Huiqi and Tubo.

In fact, it is because there are many such simple and ignorant tribal herders that nomadic peoples can continue to threaten the agricultural civilization in the south when their national strength is insufficient.

If this phenomenon is strange, it is actually not surprising. For example, a thousand years later, India, which claims to be democratic, still relies on the caste system to have hundreds of millions of slavery. Not many are truly considered citizens, and they are still elites.

There is nothing new under the sun, and it is often the case with backward countries or groups. The people at the bottom are so simple and stupid that they are uncivilized, and then there is a big fault, while the people at the top are quite cunning and smart, with high quality, special insights, and have a lot of resources.

Not only is the case in the current Xixia or Liao Kingdom. Even in India in the next thousand years, or in various pyramid scheme groups, cults, and underworld groups, they are basically the case: the upper class is super elite, the middle is broken, and the lower class is super ignorant and uncivilized.

The Song Dynasty just happened to be the other way around, and the court's ministers may not be very smart. However, folk scholars, scholars, and even civilians are not necessarily stupid. Even strategists can summarize and discuss countless theories of governing the country in one day, which is very reasonable.

In fact, this is called civilization and inheritance. Such inheritance originated even as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Fruits.

Well, it's getting far.

After going deep into the north, most Xixia people did not like the Song people, but they would not deliberately dislike the Song people. As they were, most of the Song people they could see were merchants. Merchants were not good things but were generally very polite and would carry what they needed most in the tribe, so they could trade.

So after these stupid herders saw Wang Yun's troops in the heavy snow, they didn't care about their like an army, and someone intercepted Wang Yun's team.

There was a little girl holding a lamb with a knife around her waist, and she was speechless so she couldn't understand it. This made the atmosphere tense. If the leader was not a little girl holding a lamb, this behavior would have caused the fire.

In this ignorant country, one characteristic is that the elites in several major cities basically understand Chinese and can also contact many Han people. However, the ignorant people at the bottom understand nothing, and even walk a hundred miles in a different direction, which is different dialects, and it is difficult for tribes to understand each other's language. It is so strange.

Now, the Xixia guide officials who accompanied the route did not know their language. Moreover, since ancient times, the Tartars were the most abominable. Wang Rong didn't feel anything inside, but the Xixia official who accompanied the person looked at these herders with unusual smells. Before, he saw that this tribe was very big and had swords, so he just despised and dared not scold him.

Now that they realized that they were not angry, the officials of the Xixia diplomatic verdict who were accompanying him began to curse.

But after chatting, they didn't know what each other said.

After cursing, he saw the little girl continuing to hold the sheep and looking at Wang Yun with a silly smile. The Xixia official felt embarrassed and turned around and smiled apologized to Wang Yun: "The people who despise the vulgarity of the country make the ambassador laugh."

Wang Rong really didn't see anything ridiculous about this group of big-headed herders? If I were under the rule of my young master, would such a labor force be treasured?

Of course, Wang Rong didn't say it out loud. Not only the Song Dynasty had such bureaucrats, but you can feel relieved when you see that there are also the Western Xia Dynasty. This is why the Song Dynasty has not failed until now.

"You're welcome, Lord Li is polite."

Wang Rong wore a hat and looked like a big and stupid official, and made similar moves to the officials of Xixia.

This guy is named Li Ling, and his position is the same as Wang Rong. He is also a member of the Ministry of Rites. Overall, the official system of the Western Xia is quite painful, and they are all created by imitating the Song Dynasty. There are basically some yamen in the Song Dynasty. For example, they also have Kaifeng Prefecture, three yamen, etc. As for whether these yamen can play a role, it may not be necessary. Anyway, some yamen in the Song Dynasty should also behave like a good person.

Then he chatted again. The little girl holding the lamb was smarter than other big-headed herders. Then he thought that the chief was talking Chinese, so he turned around and ran into the leader's tent, and came out with a middle-aged man with a weird hairstyle.

The leader was very polite. After a few words of smile, he brought Wang Rong and other major figures into the tent for discussion.

There was a large group of women in the leader's tent, all of whom were the chief's wives, and a few of them were pretty. Then there were groups of naughty children who gathered the Song people and surrounded them after seeing the Song people. The little girl holding the lamb was also among them.

With envious and curious mood, the children reached out to touch, pull, or poke the body with their fingers.

A naughty child ran away with a pendant on Zhan Zhao's waist.

"Hey, hey, that's not to sell." Zhan Zhao was speechless, but he couldn't shout it back, and it was not convenient to move.

Mu Guiying's temper is not as good as Zhan Zhao. She doesn't care about her surroundings. However, whenever anyone who reaches out to get things and runs away, the aunt will drag it back to the back of the head and slaps the things back.

After a while, the child who took the Zhanzhao pendant brought in with a sheep. The smell was so bad and bad. If it was summer, it would definitely be over.

The little kid walked away with the ear of the sheep. If the sheep didn't leave, the child slapped the sheep's head a few times. Finally, he dragged it over and handed it over to Zhan Zhao, then turned around and ran away again.

"Hey, hey, that thing can't be exchanged for a sheep! That souvenir is less than ten cents in Bianjing." Zhan Zhao shouted, but the little brat ran away heartlessly.

The chief walked over and approached Ma Jinxi and sniffed it.

Lao Ma suddenly looked at the chief with malicious intentions and thought: Smell the egg, grandpa takes a shower at least once every two months, which is much cleaner than you.

Immediately, the chief picked up the smoke gun on Ma Jinxi's waist and observed it curiously.

Lao Ma became proud, put the bong on his mouth, stuffed some tobacco into it and lit it.

The chief was obviously very stupid. His skills were wrong. He didn't use his mouth to cushion and directly used his lungs to suck it in one mouthful. After sucking it in, "Ahem @#..."

The chief choked and smoked in his seven orifices, but he thought it was very real, so he commented that he took Lao Ma's blast for the sake of good things. After a while, someone led a cow in and handed it to Lao Ma.

"But why do I want a cow? This cow bought twenty cigarette guns and fifty kilograms of tobacco." Ma Jinxi said in surprise.

The chief was half a bottle of jealousy. He understood the part but didn't understand it all. He only knew that Lao Ma was not satisfied, so he took the cow away and took the beautiful woman in the tent again to hand it over to Lao Ma.

"Uh..." Lao Ma smiled tilted. It seemed that the deal was very good, but he didn't have the courage to accept it, because Da Lian would not allow this.

In the end, Ma Jinxi asked the chief to come over with a cowhide.

The chief was surprised and thought that these merchants were prodigal, but they had heard of a piece of cowhide that could be replaced with something?

Wang Rong and Ma Jinwei were even more surprised. When they sent the cowhide, this thing that was not much in the Song Dynasty was really good. These people were born butchers, and the cowhide was preserved very well, and they didn't have to be one piece at a time. What's the thing? It's really a big price to process it in Bianjing.

Seeing their expressions, the chief knew that they were looking for fur, and then ordered the extra fur in the tribe to take out. The quality was excellent. In addition to cowhide, there were also cowhide tendons, and they were all very useful.

After the huge pile of things were spread out, the chief said in broken Chinese: "What do you exchange for?"

"Well, you're looking for the right person."

Dalian became confident and made a lot of preparations when he set off from Funing County.

This trip was not a war, so more than 200 war horses were carrying a lot of supplies.

Dalun clapped his hands and ordered people to take two scoops of tea cakes in.

Tea is always the highlight in the trade between the Han and the Barbarians. The Han people generally eat grains and grains and combine vegetables and wild vegetables, and have no physiological needs for tea, mainly for enjoyment. However, nomads who specialize in eating high-fat meat have a physiological needs for tea. Without tea, it is difficult for ordinary people among them to live beyond 35 years old under the conditions of this era.

When the tea cake was brought in, the chief was so excited that he knew that the good thing was coming.

But when I opened it over and saw that it was not tea, but some "big cakes", which looked very solid, so I looked at Wang Rong without any clarity.

Speaking of which, the key to the cost in ancient trade was transportation. Tea was not heavy but occupied a lot of volume, so it was considered to be materials with very high transportation costs. In order to solve this problem, Dalun used compression technology, just like Pu'er tea cakes in later generations, and purchased a lot of tea from the Suide army and made it into tea cakes for storage. Therefore, there were a lot of tea that could be carried on this trip.

By the way, such internal natural fermentation can lead to a lot of beneficial bacteria, similar to the more popular enzyme concepts in later generations.

The dietary structure of the Han people does not require these. They mainly drink tea to enjoy vitamin supplements by the way. However, for these grassland people who mainly use dry and hot meat, this kind of cake tea is really amazing. It will have immediate results. They can feel it themselves after drinking it.

The chief thought for a while and said in a whisper: "But why can this be considered tea?"

"This is a new variety developed by my Song family, which is super amazing."

Dalian didn't expect to popularize the profound concepts of these Qiu Ba. That was a love affair with Niu, so just give a conclusion, and the rest was done by experiments.

I put the tea cakes down a very small corner, and after they were dispersed, the tea leaves suddenly became more common in the eyes of these natives?

Put it in a tea bowl, bring the pot on their fire and inject hot boiling water.

Everyone gathered around and smelled it. Not only the chief, but also the Xixia officials next to him were shocked. Because they had never smelled such a pure smell of tea. This is definitely the best and best preserved tea.

It is also because of the cake tea. In addition to the initial internal fermentation, tea leaves are very scent-sniffing things. Just put the tea leaves and the sheep together, and the tea leaves will soon absorb the smell of the sheep. It is limited to ancient preservation methods and environments. Various odors in some places are much more serious than those in later generations.

So most of the time, the powerful and not very particular people, the tea stored is usually mixed with five flavors, so they simply like to add various ingredients to the tea.

However, cake tea eliminates the "dyeing" to the greatest extent. Because with the same amount of tea, cake tea can even be removed from the air by less than one percent.

"It's amazing. I have lived for decades. I have never seen a pure tea flavor that can really penetrate my heart and lungs." The chief always speaks with a sip. After taking a sip, he began to comment on it and evaluate it as the best product.

The Xixia official Li Ling also enjoyed it very much, but he didn't comment on it much, mainly because of envy, jealousy and hatred.

After drinking it for two, they were limited to the tea making process, and the rest were basically tasteless. However, the chief chewed the soaked tea leaves together. This was also a method of verification. These guys were not very good at arithmetic. Only by stuttering as usual can he tell whether this seemingly small tea leaves are really not "less".

Now the chief has finally confirmed that the tea sent by merchants in the past seemed to have to be grabbed a lot of food, but the total amount is about the same as a small piece of this kind of cake tea.
Chapter completed!