It took Murong Shun a day to dig back all the treasures he knew. To be honest, Li Ke knew that aristocratic families like to bury money, but he did not expect that even these nomadic nobles also like to bury money, but soon Li Ke guessed the reason, that is, they knew that Datang was coming, and if the money was not hidden, it would be difficult to take it away.
After all, so much money can only be taken away in a carriage, and the carriage's mobility is too weak to go up to many places, so it can only be buried.
The treasure dug up was more than Li Ke imagined. It included all the wealth of Murong Fuyun and the wealth of all the nobles in Tuyuhun. Among them, there was about 100,000 guan, but the amount of gold was quite a lot, 110 shi. , there is actually close to 7 tons of gold.
This amount was really beyond Li Ke's expectation. Although he knew that the gold rush was popular in the Western Regions, just one Tuyuhun could collect nearly 7 tons of gold, which was really a lot. The purity of this gold is definitely not as high as that of later generations. Most of it is mainly made of various gold ornaments and golden utensils, such as golden masks, headdresses, etc.
Li Ke was a little curious. If these things were buried underground, they would probably be various cultural relics more than a thousand years later. From the styles of these headdresses, masks, goldware, etc., it can be seen that most of them come from different cultures. Everyone knows that this is probably all the wealth that has been saved by the royal family in Tuyuhun for more than 300 years.
It is estimated that most of these things were snatched from the surrounding small countries.
In addition to gold, there is a lot of silver. Silverware is also the most commonly used vessel by Turkic and other ethnic minority nobles, and Li Ke even saw a lot of silver coins from Sasanian Persia.
After counting the silver, it was probably close to 4 tons.
This wealth can be said to have dug up the wealth of all the Tuyuhun nobles. Li Ke knew that this was also Murong Shun's surrender certificate, because now if Li Ke releases the other Tuyuhun nobles, it is estimated that these Tuyuhun nobles can directly hand over Murong Shun. Cut.
However, Li Ke kept his word. After Murong Shun gave the list of the Turkic nobles, Li Ke directly ordered these Turkic nobles to be escorted to Chihai and then handed over to the twenty craftsmen who came this time. The process manual for drying salt begins the construction of salt fields.
The preliminary process in the salt field is very simple. It mainly involves building salt ponds with different concentrations, and then starting to dry the brine through the salt ponds. After selecting the place, the craftsman will start directly according to the entire album, without Li Ke having to worry about it.
On Li Ke's side, people were put in charge of the construction of Xizhou City. Yes, Li Ke was planning to build a city near Chaka Salt Lake. The planning of the city was also simple. Some of the people who came here in the caravan this time had learned it. Although the people involved in planning are not as famous as the Yuwen family, they are enough to design a small city.
Although he himself had a vision, Li Ke did not take over because the times were different, and the things that needed to be considered in ancient times were different from those in modern times, so he could think about it from the side. There are several small rivers scattered around the Chaka Salt Lake that merge into the salt lake. There is a larger river on the south bank, which the locals call the Mayana River. Li Ke directly changed its name to Chaka River.
The Chaka River is the main influx of the entire Salt Lake, so there is no shortage of water resources for building cities here.
The day after Murong Shun dug back these gold and silver treasures, the entire area around the Red Sea became agitated. Not only the Red Sea, but also near the Qinghai Lake next door, all the herdsmen's settlements had the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty making loud noises. shout.
"His Royal Highness King Qin of the Tang Dynasty has decreed that the construction of Chihai City will begin in the future, and some workers will go to the relevant areas of Chihai City to work." One by one, the cavalrymen continuously informed each small tribe of the news.
There are no nobles in these small tribes. Small tribes are a bit like the villages of the Tang Dynasty. They are composed of a dozen or at most dozens of herdsmen who gather together to herd animals. They are mainly to resist wild beasts. It is possible that there will be horse bandits, or other small tribes who couldn't survive the natural disaster and came to plunder.
These Tuyuhun people all understand Chinese, so there is no need to worry about whether they understand. There is no coercion in the cavalry's notice, and Li Ke does not force these herdsmen to work. He just wants to see the reaction of these ordinary herdsmen, and then Make adjustments.
The population of Tuyuhun is really small, so the construction scope of Chihai City does not need to be too large. A city of 3 kilometers square is enough.
"Your Highness, can we provide enough food?" At this moment, in Li Ke's tent, Li Jing asked with a worried face.
"No problem." Li Ke nodded, looking beyond the window of the tent and looking at the large piece of sheep bladder hanging there in the camp after special tanning. This is reserved for making water bladders.
In ancient times, there was no such high technology. The water bladders carried by the cavalry, infantry, and nomadic cavalry of the Tang Dynasty were made from the bladders of pigs and sheep, which were tanned and sewn with a layer of skin on the outside.
In this day and age, nothing is thrown away from animals.
Except for the craftsmen, everyone in Yuelai Trading Company's caravan had already left. Before leaving, Li Ke met everyone one by one and asked their names. It doesn't matter if you can't remember them. This is a manner.
"The amount of food needed is not a small number." Li Jing sighed. Although His Highness's trading company had shipped more than 3,300 stones of food before, the food was equivalent to a huge number of people and was only a small number.
"We must find a way to save them. After all, they are now the subjects of the Tang Dynasty." Li Ke shook his head. It was actually very simple to win over the hearts of ordinary herders, just let them live.
People are the greatest wealth in this era, especially if Li Ke wants to capture Tubo in the future, these herdsmen must capture them. They have adapted to plateau life and plateau warfare.
What Li Jing and Li Ke are discussing right now is that the nomads will decline every time they lose a war! A large number of people will even die, not just killed or anything like that.
Rather, it means that all nomadic peoples on the grasslands are actually in a fragile equilibrium state. This balance refers to the balance between people and food. There is a fragile equilibrium state between herders and food such as cattle and sheep. Although cattle and sheep have Superfluous, but not superfluous.
Once a war breaks out, the khan recruits tens of thousands of soldiers, who are all strong laborers. When these people no longer hunt and only eat, consumption will increase sharply.
With fewer cattle and sheep, so many herdsmen can no longer be fed. In order to survive, they can only slaughter more cattle and sheep. Once the balance is broken, it will be a chain reaction.
Not to mention, when things like the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun happened, the tens of thousands of troops in the Tang Dynasty were all eating the cattle and sheep of Tuyuhun. This is equivalent to tens of thousands more mouths and countless cattle and sheep were slaughtered. .
Those Tuyuhun people who were killed were completely unable to restore this balance.
This is also one of the reasons why many tribes, after a great victory, will kill the enemy's men who are taller than the cartwheels, leaving only women and children. Firstly, women can reproduce the population, and secondly, they can reduce consumption and restore the balance of cattle and sheep. .
Even without culture, human wisdom is always advancing through exploration, and the same goes for nomadic peoples.
