[Journey to the West] Wukong purchasing

When Elder Tang put on a show in front of the battle with the Lord of Kucha, Wu Kong and the third prince had already sneaked out.

Sun Wukong's 72 transformations are really useful. He plucked two vellus hairs and turned into the appearance of him and Ao Lie sitting there. After a flash, he came out swaggeringly.

Of course, it turned into an attendant of the Kucha Palace.

Entering the royal study of the Lord of Kucha, Ao Lie couldn't hold back the whole dragon in an instant: the decoration of the royal study is not too much to suit the dragon's wishes, right?

The dragon chair is made of gold, and the imperial case is also decorated with gold and silver. Even the shelves are decorated with gold, silver and copper ornaments of various colors. Even the swords hanging on the wall, the hilt and scabbard are decorated with gorgeous gold. Charms and gems the size of your thumb!

Wu Cong had already gone to the bookshelf at the back to look for the map and the map of the deployment of soldiers and horses. His Highness the Third Prince looked left and right, and while Wu Cong was not paying attention, he used a magic spell and quietly picked out a few behind the dragon chair. The auspicious clouds and auspicious beasts carved in exquisite pure gold... It's a big deal to rain a few more rains on the Kucha Kingdom. These gold ornaments should be dedicated to the Dragon King.

"Okay, let's go!" In half a cup of tea, Wu Kun scanned all the encrypted files in the royal study of the King of Kucha, and he also kept an eye on it, and decided to offer Kucha to King Tang first. The map of the country and the map of the military and horse deployment, after a while, let the snake spirit girl, the third prince, and the scorpion spirit lady who has been waiting for them in Chang'an take turns to pick and send valuable information, and he has already planned. If you send it up at one time, you can only get one reward at most. If you send someone else, wouldn't you be able to get a few more rewards?

Turning his head, he saw His Highness the Third Prince's slender and white hands brushing over a vase. Looking again, there were only a few pits left on the vase, which were originally inlaid with gemstones of various sizes.

Boss Wu: "..." As expected, he is the third cousin of the dragon, with such a plucking character, he is really a family.

"Hmph! Who told them never to enshrine the Dragon Clan? They deserve it! I didn't take them in vain. I will rain on them later, and it will be easier for them!" Ao Lie proudly turned the vase in a circle, and it was not taken away. The gem side faces the outside.

Wu Kong was speechless, but a few gems could be exchanged for the prince of the Dragon Clan to personally rain down on the Kucha Kingdom. It has to be said that the Kucha King really made a profit.

"Then you have to leave a note, right? In case the lord of the country thinks that there is a ghost in his imperial study, those servants who serve you will take the blame for you." Boss Wu warmly reminded.

"Trouble!" Complaining so much, Ao Lie picked up the pen and ink on the imperial case, and left two lines of words in a fluttering manner: This treasure is destined for me, so I came here to get it! ——Ao Yu from the Dragon Palace of the West Sea.

"How do you pronounce this character?" Wu Hao pointed to the flamboyant "雩" character. He didn't know the traditional characters very well, and Ao Lie's calligraphy was wild, which made him dizzy.

"This word connects rain, and it is used by ordinary people to offer sacrifices to God when they pray for rain."

"Then... who is this Ao Yu?"

"He's my big brother. He's old-fashioned. Don't worry. He has spent 1 of the 9000 years in seclusion. He never came to play in the mortal world. He won't be discovered." Ao Lie teased his brother. Come without mercy.

Wu Hao glanced at the third prince inexplicably, no wonder the old Dragon King wanted to send this guy to the Western Buddhism to get the title of "Eight Dragons and Guangli Bodhisattva". Children, it's right to go to a boarding school managed by militarization!

Seeing Wu Hong raised his hand and took a sip of tea, he was determined. Knowing that they had succeeded, he hinted to the Lord of Kucha and the others that they had come from afar and wanted to go to rest first.The Lord of Kucha was actually very impatient to entertain this great Tang monk who wished to lift his chin to the sky: he is just the younger brother of the king of Tang, not his own brother, and he doesn’t even have a serious title. Look at him, drive him crazy, huh!

Immediately, he ordered people to take these annoying Buddhist monks from the Tang Dynasty to the most remote palace for resettlement, and decided to help them change the official documents tomorrow.Do you really think how amazing Datang is?When they form an alliance with Khitan and other powerful countries in the Western Regions, at that time, if the Tang Dynasty wants to do business with the Western Regions, it will also depend on their faces!

"I think the lord of the country is going to dig his own grave!" In the evening, looking at the map taken by Wu Kong, Tang Xuanzang said coldly, "I deliberately angered the lord with my words today. Seeing that his expression is different, I am afraid that I have already met Khitan. When the Ministry has an agreement, it is not too late, we will leave early tomorrow morning!"

"Is there going to be a war here?" Wu Hong looked at him in surprise.

"It's hard to say, let's take the time to look elsewhere. By the way, the lord of Kucha likes gold gems the most. I remember that you still have a lot of fine gold coins over there? It's just a good time to exchange some Kucha specialties with him."

Kucha specialty?This can have!

"What specialties does Kucha have?" Boss Wu approached with interest.

"Cows, horses, sheep, wheat, grapes, pears, peaches, apricots, melons and other fresh fruits, the people of Kucha are good at making jerky from beef and mutton, which is very popular among businessmen. However, these things don't matter to you, it depends on you If you exchange it, you don’t have to worry about not being able to sell it.” After a pause, Tang Xuanzang hinted, “If you have a lot of gold coins, try to exchange them for grain or cattle and sheep.”

Wu Hao glanced at Elder Tang with some horror. This guy is too disappointing to have such a merciful and merciful face of a holy monk, right?You actually want him to use a large amount of gold coins to cause chaos in the domestic economy of Kucha?

Everywhere he went before, when he exchanged gold coins for local local products, he consciously controlled the ratio of gold coins exchanged for materials, trying to prevent the local currency from depreciating because of throwing too many gold and silver coins at once. , but harm farmers.And he always shoots a shot to change a place, and he will never put too many gold coins in the same place, so it can be said that he is very cautious.

However, what Elder Tang meant was to let him purchase a large amount of supplies in Kucha, and take the opportunity to invest in gold and silver coins that exceeded the economic capacity of Kucha?

This is to make King Kucha die!

"You don't have to be surprised, I'm not a villain who doesn't care about the safety of people in other countries for the sake of Datang," Tang Xuanzang smiled bitterly when he saw Wu Kong's unbelievable expression, and clicked on the row on the map that belonged to Datang. The big and small cities of the Tang Dynasty, "In these places, there are hundreds of thousands of Li people living in the Tang Dynasty, and beyond this national border, there are tens of thousands of people from other countries such as Kucha living intertwined. You want them to be trampled by the flames of war. , ruin the country, become captives of other countries, or want them to be too poor to fight, forced to submit to the Tang Dynasty, and then become the citizens of the Tang Dynasty?"

Tang Xuanzang's words were extremely ruthless.

However, Wu Hao knew that he seemed ruthless, but in his heart he really cared about the lowest level of the common people.

If not, with a lot of gold coins in his hand, where can he not exchange them for good things?Why do you have to change in Kucha?In the end, he just wanted to take this opportunity to bankrupt the greedy King of Kucha.

If a person can't even afford to eat, what capital is there to go to war?

You know, the most ostentatious behavior in the world is not a mansion or a luxury car, but war.Once the chariot moves, at least one county's annual tax revenue will be covered. If the battle line is too long, the entire country may be dragged in. The war will not only fight people, but also the wealth of the two countries!

And what Elder Tang wants Wu Kong to do is to take the opportunity to turn the military expenses saved by the Lord of Kucha into a pile of worthless waste paper... As a citizen of the Kucha Kingdom, everyone holds it in their hands. When there are a lot of gold coins, gold and silver will become worthless in Kucha. At that time, Datang only needs to close the city gates to prevent a grain of wheat from flowing into Kucha. There is only one road waiting for the king of Kucha. The way is over: Surrender to Datang!

As for borrowing food from neighboring countries?

Give me a break!The small countries around Kucha are even poorer than Kucha, and they can’t support themselves. It’s impossible to borrow food. Even if they borrow some for the sake of saving face, it’s still not enough to feed so many people in Kucha. In a word, if you want to To survive, one must submit to the Great Tang and borrow food from the King of Tang, or the current King of Kucha will step down and a pro-Tang faction will come to power...

To sum it up in one sentence: Those who can fight economic warfare should not engage in hand-to-hand combat. The lives of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty are valuable, and the lives of ordinary people in Kucha are not trivial.Dare to fight?Empty your treasury!Currency devaluation!You can't even afford military rations, how are you still fighting?

And, Elder Tang's heart is really dark!

"How? To do it, or not to do it?" Tang Xuanzang glanced at him. He knew that with Boss Wu's cleverness, he should have already guessed what he wanted to do.

"Do it!" Wu Kong gritted his teeth and nodded.

He is alone now, afraid of a ball of yarn?

Besides... Let's take a step back, if one day the Kucha country is really destitute by his excessive currency issuance, Datang can't control them anymore, can't he sell grain to them at a low price?Anyway, at that time, even Qiuci might belong to Datang, and to provide disaster relief to the new people of Datang, the king of Tang might even give him a plaque of commendation.

What Tang Xuanzang and Wu Kong didn't know was that when they were plotting against the King of Kucha, the King of Kucha was not idle.

"How? Can this be done?" Bai Xin, the lord of Kucha, stared at his confidant generals with a gloomy expression.

Just now, after entertaining Tang Xuanzang, an eminent Tang monk who judges people with his nostrils, Bai Xin hurried back to the imperial study to deal with official duties. He didn't take this sour monk from Tang seriously, didn't he just want to go to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures?Who knows where Xitian is?Find it slowly!Who knows when he will die in the desert?He can't afford to compete with a dead man.

However, just now, the national teacher who has been with him all the time said that the behavior of Tang Xuanzang and his disciples was really weird. Maybe it was the secret work sent by the king of Tang to spy on the military situation in Kucha. That's all.

I have to say that the national teacher next to the Lord of Kucha really hit the nail on the head. The King of Tang really had this kind of plan in mind, so he sent Tang Xuanzang to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures with great fanfare. On the road, what I did was really meticulous work.

It’s just that Tang Xuanzang is a high-level craftsman, and he is carrying the banner of “cultural exchange”. Most of the countries in the Western Regions believe in Buddhism. How dare you say that Tang Xuanzang traveled thousands of miles to the west to learn scriptures and is not devout enough?

However, it was a matter of military and national importance, Bai Xin took a look at the national teacher, gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind: "Go! Order someone to fetch charcoal!"

He couldn't clearly execute Tang Xuanzang who was an eyesore. Could it be that he couldn't have directed an "accident"?At that time, it will be said that the water ran out in the middle of the night, and the whole house was burned to death. There is no proof of death, so what if the king of Tang knows?

Tang Xuanzang never thought that he was burned once by that greedy elder Jinchi in Guanyin Temple, and that the Lord of Kucha came to burn him again. Could it be that when he offended Lord Huo Dezhen?