"I wonder if Brother Li has heard of cement?"

Li Guangyan nodded and said, "I heard that it is a new thing, used to build houses. Even in the Song Dynasty, it is a rare thing, but what does this have to do with our Dangxiang? In fact, we Dangxiang people rarely build houses, and most of them live in tents. Look at so many houses in Xiazhou, but they are actually Han people."

Sun Yue smiled and said, "Building a house is just an added value of cement. Its real function is actually to cast a city and build roads."

"Casting a city? Building a road?"

"Let me put it this way, building a city as big as Xiazhou requires 100,000 people to build it day and night, and it will take more than a year to build it. And it can almost empty the taxes of the five states in Dingnan for ten years. However, with cement, if bricks are burned on the spot, it will take me three thousand people to repair it in three months."

"What's the matter? Three thousand people can repair Xiazhou City in three months? This... this magical object is so powerful?"

"Yes, it's so powerful, and there is almost no cost except cement. I, the Song Dynasty, can even do labor to help you build a city. Of course, it needs to be exchanged for Ma. Think about it, only Xiazhou in the five prefectures of Dingnan can be called a big city. If Dangxiang has dozens of such big cities and even every tribe has such a big city, what does it mean? To put it bluntly, aren't the enemies of the Hexi Corridor just those Uighurs of all sizes? If you build hundreds or ten Wubaos there for you, are they still your opponents? Even if you pay some price, what's the point?"

Li Guangyan's eyes were wide open, dozens of big cities like Xiazhou? No, there was no need to be so many. As long as there were big cities like this in the five prefectures, Dangxiang's national strength would at least double! The Dangxiang people even had the opportunity to live a good life like the Song people!

What's more, the Five Dingnan Prefectures are actually just part of Dangxiang. Although Dingxiang is not as chaotic as the Uighurs and Tubo, it is actually very complicated inside. There are still many white Dingxiang and black Dingxiang. The Five Dingnan Prefectures are just the most Chinese dialect and closest to the Han people.

As a nomadic people, why are the Khitans so rich and strong? The Yelu family speaks so well? Isn’t it because they have cities and the sixteen states of Yanyun? If there are such magical artifacts, then I will definitely be unable to become the Yanyun of the Dangxiang people? If the Tuoba family can really master such magical artifacts, wouldn’t it be easy to unify the Dangxiang? Wouldn’t their family have to create a Yelu Abaoji?

Thinking of this, Li Guangyan's breathing became heavy.

Sun Yue took the opportunity to increase his investment: "In addition to building a city, the more powerful cement is actually building roads. The northwest is bitter and cold, poor mountains and rivers, and deserts are everywhere. Even if there are galloping horses, it is difficult to travel between tribes. To put it bluntly, isn't it because there is no road? With this cement, taking Qinzhou and Xiazhou as an example, a straight cement road with two thousand people is enough for two months."

They are all smart people, and there is no need to say what kind of benefits this way will bring to the Tuoba clan unification of the Dangxiang. Li Guangyan grabbed Sun Yue's hand and said, "Do it, we will do it. If it is really like you said, it will be able to build it. Our Dangxiang people protect the Hexi Corridor of the Song Dynasty."

Sun Yue smiled and said, "Brother Li, can you be the master of Dangxiang? The Hexi Corridor is a big project and a big plan. If you really want to see the benefits, it will take ten or eight years. I'd better talk to your uncle about this. If Brother Li can help me with a few good words, I will be grateful."

"I can't do that. If I don't mention that false, I can't do the Lord of Dangxiang, but if my uncle wants to be the Lord of Yinzhou, I must first ask me, brother, just give me a honest price. I want to repair Yinzhou City, build Yinzhou City like Xiazhou, and lay the entire Yinzhou on two roads, one vertical and one horizontal. How long does it take and how many horses will it take."

Sun Yue was happy when he heard this and stretched out five fingers with a smile.

"Fifty thousand? It's not expensive, but brother, I don't have that many. Yinzhou is barren and cannot compare to Xiazhou. You can give me a discount. Is 30,000 okay? To be honest, I have to pay 30,000 horses bit by bit. It would be nice to be able to deliver them to you within a year. Now I can only take out 20,000. But brother, my horse is of good quality, although it's not as good as Qinghai inspection, but Qinghai inspection is only a lot. It's not practical for the nobles to ride on the show. My Yinzhou horse is the best horse in the world except Qinghai inspection. I also know that my request is too much, but brother, I am really anxious. I use animal skins and beast tendons to exchange for the inadequate part. I owe you another favor. I swear in the name of Tuoba Sigong's descendants. In the future, as long as my brother needs it, I will be on call. How about it?"

Sun Yue was stunned. You must know that he stretched out five fingers to say that it was about five thousand!

However, this obviously did not affect his appearance of being very embarrassed and said, "Brother... it's not that my brother won't help, it's really this cement... It's also a rare thing in our Song Dynasty. You only have 20,000 pieces..."

"Brother, please, it's finished one day earlier. Let's go to guide the Hexi Corridor one day earlier!"

"Well, for the sake of the Hexi Corridor, I will suffer some losses in the Song Dynasty. The cement of the entire Dangxiang can be at this price, but I have to write a note to ask the above for instructions. We have to agree that I will give you such a big discount, and your Dangxiang must agree to me a condition."

“What conditions?”

"When the Song Dynasty attacked Yanyun in the north in the future, your Dangxiang would send troops to help."

"No problem, it should be, it should be. We Dingnan Army is the governor of the Song Dynasty? What else can we say? It must be fine. But brother, I would say something I shouldn't say. If the Song Dynasty helps us like this, I won't be afraid that if one day the two families will start something dirty..."

In response to this, Sun Yue just smiled and said lightly: "The friendship between our Han nationality and Dangxiang has been around for hundreds of years, and even from Tuoba Sigong, it has been more than a hundred years. We believe that the friendship between the Han nationality and Dangxiang will last forever, and Dangxiang people will always be the most trustworthy friends and partners of our Song people."

I don’t know if Li Guangyan believed it or fake it, but he kept nodding, and he was about to point out cervical spondylosis.

Of course, Sun Yue himself would not believe this nonsense.

The Song Dynasty built a city for Dangxiang, were you afraid that they would rebel one day? Of course, I was not afraid anymore. What the Song Dynasty was afraid of was that they rode horses to play hide-and-seek with themselves in the desert and attacked and defended the city? The Song Dynasty was their ancestor! If it was not good, then there was still gunpowder? Although the explosives had not been developed, I heard that more than 100 people had been killed in Langzhou, but the power of gunpowder to attack the city was not exaggerated.

Besides, the real power of the Han people is never in terms of force, but in culture. The speed of assimilating foreign races is simply too fast. When the Dangxiang people live together in a comfortable city, when the Dangxiang people no longer have to worry about basic survival needs such as food, clothing, etc., when the entire Five Dingnan Prefectures were trained by the roads and no longer have to worry about not being able to find people, the people will go crazy and dive into the desert with your nobles.

The so-called Hu abducted will not have a century of national destiny. This is what it means. Perhaps the Han people cannot guarantee eternal strength on the battlefield, but when everyone put down their swords and joins them together, the Han people are really your ancestors. Where are the Shatuo people who were invincible fifty years ago?

Once this transaction is completed, waiting for Dangxiang's fate, there is only one who will be the only one who will be a watchdog for Da Song to watch the house on the edge of the Hexi Corridor. In less than a hundred years, there will probably be no Dangxiang in the world.
Chapter completed!