On the morning of the 4th of May, the 10,000 Winged Knights set out.
They brought 4,000 Sky Monkeys, large amounts of floral water, alcohol, and hang gliders.
Zhuangzi began to work overtime to produce Sky Monkeys. They needed to have enough reserves.
Guo Zhiyun's team only had twenty carts of Sky Cracker Monkeys left, and each cart contained twenty sticks.
He had used 800 on the first day of the attack and was reluctant to use the remaining 400.
The Sky Monkeys were all used up. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. They were all money.
To put it bluntly, the Tang dynasty used technology and money in exchange for the lives of the soldiers.
Now that they had sent another 4,000, Guo Zhiyun believed that if he used them well, he would be able to obtain the entire source of the Yellow River.
Hugestone City did not need firearms for the time being. They had already won. The cavalry could not attack, and the Abbasid Caliphate would have to lick their wounds for the time being.
"Quick, write a letter." Bozhu, who was lying in bed, received the news and asked Isinba to write a letter.
Yesterday, he had already written a letter telling Tubo that the army attacking Hugestone City had been completely wiped out. Today, the Tang dynasty sent another 10,000 Winged Knights with 4,000 Sky Monkeys.
He told Zan Pu to prepare. It would be best if … they could sue for peace. They could not continue fighting.
Tubo needed to recover. If they continued fighting, they might be destroyed by the Tang dynasty.
After the autumn harvest, the Tang dynasty's frontline had plenty of food. Tubo had harvested food, but they did not have enough soldiers to fight.
"They have already written. They also asked us to send more people to the Tang dynasty to increase the number of people we can send messages to." Isinba looked at Bozhu worriedly.
Bozhu's condition was not good. He had lost a lot of weight, and he often had nightmares at night. If not for the Tang dynasty's imperial physicians, he would have …
"I'm fine. Don't worry about me. I've thought it through." Bozhu squeezed out a smile, followed by a cough.
After spitting out a large mouthful of phlegm, his breathing became smooth. "Learn. Learn from the Tang dynasty. Give better treatment to the craftsmen, research weapons, and cultivate and raise livestock."
"The Tang dynasty will also become stronger." Isinba did not think that a complete peace with the Tang dynasty would benefit Tubo.
The Tang dynasty had a large population. Once the Tang dynasty developed, Tubo would have no chance to attack them even if he wanted to.
Bo Xie shook his head. "Expand to the west and southwest. Capture the people there and send someone to tell the Abbasid Caliphate that the Tang dynasty wants to annex them."
"That's the only way." Isinba didn't know if it would work or not. The Abbasid Caliphate had always been fighting with Tubo. Now, they were fighting the Tang dynasty together.
"Then think of a way to go to places where the ships of the Tang dynasty can only go and tell the locals that the people of the Tang dynasty eat people and take them as slaves."
Boxie came up with another plan. Tubo could not deal with the Tang dynasty at the moment, so he had to think of a way to make things difficult for the Tang dynasty.
Isinba nodded in agreement. He didn't really believe it either.
The silk and pottery of the Tang dynasty were good things. Would others not know how to look at them?
Unless Tubo spent money to bribe some people to attack the merchants of the Tang dynasty and muddy the waters.
The results might not be good, but Tubo would pay a great price.
After the letter was sent out, Boxie seemed to have thought it through. His spirit suddenly became better, not like a dying flash.
… …
The people of the capital office couldn't feel their worries. They only knew that they had won a great battle and captured so many enemies.
The people began to prepare to go up the mountain. Tomorrow was the 5th of May. The price of mugwort on that day was 10% higher than usual.
In fact, the effect of the medicine was about the same. If it rained on the 5th of May, the mugwort harvested would be better than harvesting two days earlier or later.
Li Yi was purely making everyone happy. The mugwort processed by the Li Family Zhuangzi would be sold to the medicine shops at cost price.
If the medicine shops didn't have disciples, they didn't have to make the mugwort themselves.
Those with disciples would teach them how to make the mugwort. At the same time, they could save money and even let their disciples pick the mugwort.
"Dongzhu, a ship of elm bark powder has just been harvested. We didn't get much honey." Song De had just handed over a batch of elm bark powder and came to report.
"It's okay. The imperial court is collecting honey." Li Yi didn't worry about the honey. He made malaria pills and gave a portion to the imperial court.
The imperial court sold it to outsiders. Tubo and Tujue didn't have a quota.
Other people bought it at a high price, but there was a limit to the amount.
The imperial court collected the honey and gave it to the Li Family Zhuangzi. A portion of the pills they took was the honey money.
Li Yi auctioned the pills. The imperial court set the price. If others wanted to buy more, they could only bid.
The minimum price for the pills was higher than the imperial court's price.
In this way, the imperial court made money, and others would say that the imperial court of the Tang dynasty was good.
Tubo and Tujue could only buy the pills at a higher price and send them back to the slave masters there.
In addition, Li Yi also smuggled the pills to the southwest barbarians.
The local Military forces of the Tang dynasty opened the market first. A portion of the money was kept by the local people to live, and a portion was used to make up for the goods there.
This year, there would be many ships of goods sent over, including animal fur, medicinal herbs, and dried meat.
In addition, there were live animals. These were not easy to raise. The transportation fee was high, and there were deaths on the way.
The local army was the House of Subjugation. They needed to feed their families. Only when their families lived well could they fight.
The main thing was that they ate well and had strength.
"Dongzhu, I heard that someone is buying the honey at a high price. I don't know who is behind it." Song De said.
"High price? The people don't know what the honey is used for. Just say in the newspaper that it is used to make malaria medicine. They are willing to sell it to the Zhuangzi at a low price. "
Li Yi was not worried. He believed that the people who learned how to raise bees would support the Li Family Zhuangzi.
Moreover, the imperial court sent people to collect the honey in the county. There were people in the village who learned how to raise bees and brought the honey to sell. The price was not low.
What was the use of snatching the honey from the imperial court? Using it to make incense? The imperial court had ordered that the honey used to make incense would be confiscated.
"Dongzhu, then I will go to the printing workshop." Song De agreed and was about to leave.
"Don't, don't print the newspaper. The people worked hard to sell the honey for money. Let the people earn. I should know who is collecting the honey. Hmph! Playing this game with me. "
Li Yi stopped Song De and signaled him to go back to work.
He was waiting, waiting for the other party to come to him. However, he would not take the honey. He would take it and keep it. Let's see how long it can last.
"Who is Dongzhu?" Eunuch Huang Bai was curious. How could he guess?
"The merchants of the imperial court do not dare to snatch the honey from me. Let's see who has more money now." Li Yi hinted.
The merchants of the imperial court were sensible. If they wanted to make money, they would cooperate with the Li Family Zhuangzi or copy some of the behaviors of the Li Family Zhuangzi.
When the merchants from other places came to Chang 'an, they would need to interact with the merchants of Chang' an.
The merchants of Chang 'an would tell them what to do and what not to do.
The rest were the people from other small countries. The small countries did not have much money, and they still wanted to buy the sadomasochism pills.
"The Japanese Empire's diplomatic mission?" Huang Bai understood immediately.
"They probably want to show me their wealth and then give me the honey. They want to get closer to me and get some secrets from me."
Li Yi guessed that this was the most likely possibility.
He used to buy walnuts. Some people liked to play with walnuts and would choose them. He would then buy them all at a high price.
The other party could not buy them and was angry. He would bring the walnuts to them.
He would first apologize and say that he did not know that the other party also wanted walnuts.
He would then say that he thought the walnuts were edible. In the end, he found out that they were not edible after buying them.
He hoped that the other party would accept the walnuts. For example, five yuan per kilogram, or three yuan.
When the other party saw that he was selling them by the kilogram, he did not accept bribes and bought them.
Later, he could not do it. There were too many walnuts and they were not valuable.
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