socalfunplaces Chapter 392
Chapter 392
The Western Regions are thousands of miles away from Chang'an.
"Atana, have you sent someone to inform the Tang Dynasty in advance to meet us at the border? The herders can only drive their cattle and sheep to the border."
After the first meeting, the envoy Wutuo and Atana became more familiar with each other.
"Wutuo, don't worry! Two days ago, I sent someone to deliver the letter to the Tang Dynasty. Someone will meet us at the border."
Atana was shocked when he looked at the yaks and sheep.
The royal family of the Western Regions was really generous. If they knew the price of fine salt in the Tang Dynasty, I wonder what they would think.
Tea is not sold publicly in the Tang Dynasty now, and Atana doesn't know the specific price.
Atana and his team had five carriages to transport goods to the Western Regions. I don't know where the Western Regions people found ten carriages. There were a total of twenty carriages, all covered with yellow stones.
They were covered with woven thatch because it had a pungent smell.
The day after Wutuo left, he sent someone to confirm with Atana with the sulfur blocks picked up from the crater.
Atana carefully took out the card that the guard who chased him that day gave him, which had a pattern of yellow stones on it.
After careful comparison, it was confirmed that it was the yellow stone that Su Chen wanted.
There were more white daisy flowers, and each yak carried two large "packages" on its back, which were mesh bags woven with rattan.
These yaks are different from wild ones. Domesticated ones can carry some things.
Atana was full of confidence that this trip to the Western Regions would be a great success.
"Wutuo, let's set off now!" Atana was impatient and wanted to return to Chang'an as soon as possible.
Wutuo nodded, "Okay, please wait a moment." Then he walked towards the yurt not far away.
After about a cup of tea, Wutuo followed the two people out of the yurt together.
A boy and a girl. The boy was about twelve years old and the same height as Li You. The girl was taller than the boy because her age was not obvious.
The boy gave himself a Chinese name, Zhao Yun, and the girl was Zhao Yu.
The two siblings were extremely fascinated by Chinese culture. The last letter was written by Zhao Yun.
Their status in the Western Regions was like that of Li Zhi and Princess Changle in the Tang Dynasty. They were children of the royal family of the Western Regions.
The King of the Western Regions also loved them very much. This time, he could not persuade them, so he could only let them accompany Wu Tuo to Chang'an.
The main reason was that they could speak Chinese and recognize Chinese characters.
"Atana, these two are the third prince and princess of the Western Regions. They are going to Chang'an with us this time."
Wu Tuo briefly introduced them to Atana.
"Meet the third prince and princess." Atana greeted the two, and at the same time wondered if the King of the Western Regions was so bold that he dared to send the prince and princess to the Tang Dynasty with only three hundred soldiers.
However, Atana didn't care about these things, he just wanted to set off back to the Tang Dynasty.
The brother and sister bowed slightly to Atana in return.
Zhao Yun looked at Atana curiously, and he obviously saw that Atana was not a Han Chinese.
"Uto, let's set off now!"
Wuto looked at Zhao Yun and his brother and sister, then nodded and said, "Okay, let's set off!"
Atana didn't know that on the way back to Chang'an this time, he met the most talkative person in history.
Zhao Yun, a real chatterbox!
As long as there was a break along the way, Zhao Yun asked Atana why he became a merchant in the Tang Dynasty and the situation of Atana's hometown.
Zhao Yun even asked the names of Atana's wife and children, and of course some folk customs in Chang'an City.
A group of people marched towards the border of the Western Regions. Wuto had dozens of people following, plus herdsmen and three hundred soldiers who drove cattle and sheep.
The total number added up to about four hundred people, and one thousand cattle and sheep.
The journey is expected to take more than a month.
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Five days later, on the eighth day of the eleventh month, at the time of Chen.
The two guards of the Eastern Palace who left the Western Regions two days ago and returned to the Tang Dynasty to report the news arrived in Ganzhou, a border city of the Tang Dynasty.
The guards revealed their identities and found Zhang Baoxiang, the garrison commander of Ganzhou, and explained the reason for him to use the 600-li express to send the letter from the Western Regions to Chang'an.
Only in this way can the news be sent back to Chang'an at the fastest speed. It will take at least six days for the two to rush from Ganzhou to Chang'an, and pigeons are not useful here.
The border guards can use this 600-li express if there is urgent military information, and if it is 800-li express, relevant authorization must be obtained.
The 800-li express is only used in wartime.
"Please rest well, both of you. I will immediately send the letter to Chang'an by the Marquis of Exclusion, and it will be delivered in two days at most." Zhang Baoxiang bowed.
"Deputy General, prepare delicious food for you two."
The Eastern Palace Guards clasped their fists and saluted, "Thank you, General!"
They didn't plan to go anywhere, so they waited for Atana to arrive in Ganzhou. This was the only way for the Western Regions to enter Chang'an. Unlike the two of them, it might take Atana and his party more than ten days to reach Ganzhou.Zhang Baoxiang turned and left Anchu Hou to deliver the letter, muttering in his heart:
"It's really strange. A few days ago, I helped the King of Shu to encircle more than a thousand Shuofang cavalry for no reason, and today the Eastern Palace Guards came here again."
Thinking of the last time he encircled and annihilated the Shuofang cavalry, Zhang Baoxiang was angry.
According to the rules of the battlefield, whoever kills the enemy, the spoils belong to him.
But the King of Shu and the man named Xue Rengui were unreasonable. The battle was not over yet, and the hundreds of soldiers they brought with them followed behind and only led the horses to pick up weapons. Zhang Baoxiang didn't get a piece of armor.
Afterwards, he just thanked him verbally and said that he would send him a few jars of good wine when he returned to Chang'an to show his gratitude.
However, Zhang Baoxiang was shocked by the fighting power of the King of Shu and Xue Rengui.
One held a spear, the other held a halberd, and the two rode together among hundreds of enemy troops, as if they were in an unmanned area.
If it weren't for the consideration of hurting those good horses, the enemy would definitely be thrown to the ground.
After a moment of disdain, Zhang Baoxiang handed the letter from the Western Regions to the scout to be sent to Chang'an, and personally handed it to His Majesty or the Crown Prince.
At the same time, Zhang Baoxiang also wrote a short message and asked the scout to present it to His Majesty.
He wanted to find out who the young general in white robe Xue Rengui was.
He was more powerful than the King of Shu, and could easily throw the enemy on horseback dozens of meters away with a halberd in one hand.
Is it human power?
If Zhang Baoxiang knew that Xue Rengui's Fang Tian Huaji weighed four hundred kilograms.
I wonder what he would think!
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"My Lord, do you think this will work?"
Several servants were rubbing the sweet potatoes hard. Su Chen asked the supervisor to make thirty file boards and delivered them to the manor yesterday.
Today, use one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes to try the effect. The sweet potatoes need to be washed before they can be filed into slag.
By the way, calculate how much starch can be produced from one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes with low starch content.
"Well, it's almost done!" Su Chen was not very sure. He grabbed a handful of sweet potato residue and felt it was quite broken.
The tripod has been set up, with a large gauze hanging in the middle and three wooden sticks supporting each corner, and a large vat is placed below.
"Put the sweet potato residue in the gauze bag and slowly pour water on it.
At the same time, pull the gauze bag up and down to turn the sweet potato residue inside. You pour water on it and I will show you how to do it."
Su Chen grabbed the two corners of the gauze bag and swung it up and down.
"Pour water on it!"
After a while, the liquid carrying sweet potato starch slowly dripped out from the bottom of the gauze bag and flowed down into the large vat below.
A few minutes later, Su Chen stirred the cloth bag with his hands for a few times and continued to pour water on it.
"That's it, you guys come!"
After finishing one bag, Su Chen asked the servants to operate it.
"If the water in the tank is full, just let it settle. The sweet potato residue should be kept to feed the pigs."
The other servants felt that it was not good to just watch, so they prepared two sets of equipment for washing sweet potato starch.
Soon after, the servants found that it was faster to seal the mouth with gauze and rub it directly with their hands.
It is more efficient than pouring water like this, and the starch is easier to squeeze out.
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