Chapter 191: Fairy Ji's Fame Spreads to the Northern Frontier
Before meeting up with Gu Changxiao, although he had already escaped to the northern border, Jin Sui was still worried. He had very little time to rest on the road and tried to travel as much as possible.
Things were different after he met up with Gu Changxiao. Jinsui was completely in the mindset of a field investigation. He had been in a hurry on the way here, and it was extremely cold at that time, with ice and snow all over the ground, and the sky and earth were gray.
During the migration, we did not encounter many herding tribes along the way. But the return trip was different. The ice and snow near the south began to melt, and the sheep could easily nibble on the grass roots.
The small tribes without fertile pastures all migrated back, and the number of tribes waiting along the road to trade with the Xia delegation increased significantly.
Gu Changxiao said that he could not return to the border town so soon because he had to wait for news from the Northern Frontier delegation. He sent a Northwestern Army to follow secretly, all the way to Chang'an.
He was worried that Prince Yu would get the news in advance and send people to stop the Northern Frontier delegation from reaching Chang'an, so he had to wait until the delegation passed the Northwest Pass before returning to the border town.
In this way, Jin Sui will have more time to stay in the Northern Frontier. Although her "Fairy Lady" cause cannot be carried out in the royal court, it is just the same to carry it out on the road!
During the period of trading with various tribes, she would take Hei Hu to visit the small tribe. Haha, Jin Sui even took out the little Taoist clothes that Grandpa Ling had prepared for her.
Wearing a purple cloak, with his hair tied up in a Taoist bun and holding a whisk, he stood there coolly, looking like an immortal.
She visited the tribe like this and was very generous. When she saw children giving her candies, when she saw old people giving her tea, when she saw women giving her a handkerchief, a sachet or a glass ring, the other party would be so happy that they would immediately slaughter sheep to entertain her.
Delivering things is certainly not the point. The main thing is to establish a trading post, see if there are any farmlands nearby, and promote the cash crops we buy at high prices.
The collection of rabbit hair and wool should be promoted more. Of course, if someone is sick and asks for medicine, she will also give it to them.
Xie Maolin and other Northwest Army soldiers were stunned and asked Hei Hu in a low voice: "What exactly does Miss Ji do?"
Hei Hu replied with what Jin Sui once said: "When you are away from home, you give yourself an identity! Our Boss Ji has a variety of identities. She can be whatever person is needed!"
Xie Maolin felt something was wrong: "Isn't this a lie?"
Black Tiger was not happy: "Then I won't lie. Go trade with the small tribe in the northern border!"
Xie Maolin could only respond with a dry laugh. What Miss Ji accomplished by pretending to be a Taoist priest was worth more than any number of envoys sent by Daxia.
When the Great Xia delegation passes by, the small tribes will just evacuate upon hearing the news. How can they possibly slaughter sheep and prepare wine to entertain you?
Ji Xiangu's fame began when she met a group of herdsmen in Jinsui and abandoned several sheep that had fallen to the ground.
She asked curiously, "Aren't you going to take these sheep with you?"
The herdsman could not speak Chinese, so a Northwest Army soldier named Zhang Tongfang, who knew the Northern Xinjiang dialect, translated it. The translation was concise, just like Han Xing's translation of Dave's words.
"If they are sick, they will be infected if brought back to the sheep, and they will die here."
Hei Hu didn't understand: "If it's sick, can we kill it and eat it?"
“People in northern Xinjiang don’t eat sick sheep.”
"Then stay here?"
"Yes. They believe that the dead animals will nourish the pasture and give back to the earth. The grass will be more lush next year."
This is totally unacceptable in our Xia culture. Not to mention that the animal is not dead yet, even if it is dead, it is still meat! How can we just throw it away?
"No wonder we kept seeing complete animal skeletons along the way. It turns out they really threw away the dead cattle and sheep!"
The black tiger barked his teeth and said, "How strange! They don't eat their own dead cattle and sheep, but go to steal other people's food to eat!"
When Jin Sui saw Zhang Tongfang open his mouth, she hurriedly said, "No need to translate this sentence!"
The veins in the other person's temple jumped: "Miss Ji, I know my limits."
It's just that I'm not like Hei Hu, I'm not stupid! Now let's not discuss other people's ethnic customs, but Jin Sui was checking these sick sheep, and said to Zhang Tongfang confidently: "Ask the herdsmen, if I save this sheep, can I take it away?"
The herdsman was stunned and seemed not to understand. Zhang Tongfang gestured and repeated it twice, and finally the other party understood that this Han saint woman could cure livestock plague!
The herdsman did not answer immediately, but rode back to his tribe on horseback.
Seeing his fleeing back, several people were dumbfounded: "What is he doing? Do you agree or disagree?"
Jin Sui laughed: "Who cares? Let's treat him first."
She did not use the antibiotics produced in space because they were too expensive and the quantity was too small. She was afraid that there would not be enough for people to use.
Instead, she used the penicillin solution made by the border military doctor and asked Heihu and his men to wear gloves and masks to catch the sick sheep. She fed the solution to each of them based on their condition and weight.
Some sheep's hooves or wounds were inflamed and pus was discharged, so they were washed with light salt water. They also boiled some herbs such as Isatis root and mixed them with the grass for the sheep to eat.
Of course it couldn't be cured in one day, but when the escaped herder came with the tribesmen and the chief, he saw with his own eyes that among the fallen sheep, two had such mild symptoms that they had already stood up.
He immediately called it a miracle and knelt on the ground and kowtowed towards the holy mountain.
Jin Sui was speechless. Shouldn't you thank me? Why should I thank the gods? Well, in their understanding, it was the gods who sent Jin Sui to the northern border, and it was the gods who guided Jin Sui to heal their sheep, so they still had to thank the gods first.
The chief was very excited. He had received a letter and learned that a team of Xia envoys would be passing through the tribe on their way back to Daxia from the royal court.
But his tribe had a livestock plague and too many cattle and sheep died. He did not have any extra sheep to exchange for supplies, so he did not send anyone to wait here.
Unexpectedly, this Xia Shi was so powerful! He could cure the sick sheep that even the witch couldn't cure! The tribe leader immediately invited Jin Sui to come to the tribe as a guest, but this time Jin Sui refused and gave them medicine to cure the sick sheep himself.
Because of this incident, the group camped near the tribe for five days. As the news spread, many tribal leaders came on horseback to ask for medicine within five days.
Of course, the medicine cannot be given for free. In addition to exchanging it for war horses, an agreement must be signed to establish trade relations with the border town and allow the border town to build a trading zone here.
As long as they agree, the border town will provide them with medicine for treating livestock every year. Of course, there will also be medicine for treating people.
Our Fairy Ji's medical skills were taught by the gods, and she is extremely skilled in treating both humans and animals!
Jinsui thought that they would argue about the establishment of the trade zone, and he was not willing to see the trade zone encroach on the territory of his tribe.
In the end, they were arguing about whose tribe the trade zone should be built in. They almost came to blows over this, and Jin Sui had to agree that the trade zone was mobile.
In addition to fixed post stations, monthly markets were held among the major tribes.
They quarreled endlessly over the frequency of holding markets in their own tribe and their willingness to make concessions to the border town.
What’s funny is that Jinsui said that if other tribes are willing to join, trading zones can also be opened to other tribes.
As a result, these chiefs immediately united and stated that they would only open the trade within their tribes, and new tribes could only join in the trade but could not open the trade to their tribes.
Since they couldn't sign a contract, they used the most traditional toast as a sign of alliance, and Gu Changxiao was invited to drink the wine.
Jin Sui made several tokens with the word "Li Da Wuxian" engraved on them in a very ceremonial manner, and the word "Shang" was engraved on the back.
She originally wanted to make a colored glaze token, because people in northern Xinjiang love shiny colored glaze so much! But she was afraid it would break too easily, so she made it out of fine iron.
She also gave each of the six tribal chiefs who came to negotiate today a glass eagle. Oh, how happy they were!
We slaughtered sheep, brought wine, and lit bonfires. It was as lively as the Chinese New Year.
The trade items agreed upon by both parties were wool, sheepskin, rabbit hair, rabbit skin, dried meat, cheese, pig iron, various metals, herbs, cash crops, and most importantly, war horses from the northern border.
Jinsui added another item, oil, and said that as long as an oil mine was discovered, Biancheng could send helpers to mine it.
What the northern Xinjiang needs are salt, sugar, tea, silk, cotton and linen cloth, various utensils, glassware, medicine, rouge, perfume, fodder, etc.
Gu Changxiao specifically stated that the border town did not have enough food to eat and could not use it for trading, but it could be exchanged for cash crops.
At the same time, it was agreed that the two sides would sign a 100-year non-aggression treaty. As long as one side broke the peace, trade would be terminated immediately and friends would become enemies.
Gu Changxiao was discussing trade here, and Jinsui's flag of miracle doctor was not taken down. This time, a group of people came to line up for medical treatment.
She cured a little boy's eye disease, which had severe inflammation and infection in the corner of his eye. In an era without antibiotics, it was easy to go blind if you only relied on herbal medicine to treat your eyes.
The boy's mother knelt down before her and kowtowed, begging her to give him a talisman. Jin Sui had no choice but to write a note with the words "peace" and put it in a sachet with a glass bead as a talisman for the boy.
The mother gave him a cow as a thank you gift! The bull was not castrated and was very strong. Black Tiger almost couldn't hold it. He definitely couldn't bring it back to the border town, so he had no choice but to kill it on the spot and eat the beef.
Xie Maolin had been shocked so many times along the way that he had gotten used to it. He finally understood what Hei Hu meant by "following Boss Ji, you will have everything you want".
The value of this sentence is still rising! Before they followed Miss Ji, they ate dry biscuits and drank snow water. Now they not only eat more mutton, but also beef!
You should know that in Daxia no one can kill cattle without reason, it is a serious crime.
Then Jinsui cured the abdominal pain of the clan leader's son, which was actually kidney stones. Fortunately, the stones were not large. She used acupuncture to stimulate the pain and used medical equipment from the space to cooperate.
After drinking plenty of water, his long-term abdominal pain was successfully cured.
Most of the people who come to seek treatment for women's diseases are women. After all, it is not easy to find witch doctors to treat women, and there are very few female doctors in Northern Xinjiang. Even if there are any, they are in big provincial cities like Wuting and will not come to the small tribe of Bianchui.
This Daxia Fairy was a woman with great medical skills, so they certainly wouldn't let this opportunity slip by. A long queue formed in front of Jinsui's tent, and there was even a fight over a spot.
Jinsui had no choice but to arrange for number plates and use the ancient method of registering for medical treatment.
Regardless of the severity of their illness, the gifts given by these people who came to see the doctor were generous, at least a lamb. For example, the son of the patriarch who was treating the abdominal pain directly gave two war horses.
Jinsui doesn't want to leave anymore. It's too profitable to be a traveling doctor in Northern Xinjiang!
Five days later, after the trade negotiations, five more tribes came to receive the fine iron trade tokens, and Gu Changxiao also received news from the Northern Frontier delegation that they had successfully passed the Northwest Pass.
Prince Yu made the arrangements too late, or the delegation moved too quickly, and they arrived only after they had passed the customs, and by then it was impossible to persuade them to leave, as the officials had already quickly reported to the court.
The team that was trying to persuade them to leave turned into a reception team, and Gu Changxiao's men changed their focus to protecting Eunuch Zhou, because Eunuch Zhou was so scared that he peed his pants several times, and kept saying that Prince Yu would definitely skin him alive.
In short, things are going smoothly and I can return to the border town with peace of mind.
But according to Jin Sui's observation, it would not be a problem to stay a few more days. Another reason why Gu Changxiao did not want to stay was that Yan Jiu's team was about to arrive.
He didn't want to travel with Yan Jiu, or rather, he didn't want Jin Sui to travel with Yan Jiu.
The funny thing is that Fairy Ji's reputation once again spread back to the royal court. Those dignitaries heard that Jin Sui cured someone's chronic disease and sheep plague.
I immediately regretted it. It turned out that what Ji Xiangu said was true! She really had the ability to cure the plague! What a pity! If I had known earlier, I would have agreed to build a Taoist temple for her and keep her in the royal court.
The one who regretted the most was Bater. He did not regret locking Jinsui up in the shrine, but regretted not using more extreme methods to keep Jinsui.
He also blamed Tuoya: "If sister is willing to help, take Ji Xiangu away quietly. Now she is ours!"
Tuoya was speechless: "Why don't you understand? The Han people have an old saying, 'A forced melon is not sweet.
If you force Miss Ji to stay like this, she won't be willing to help you."
Battelle thought there was something wrong with the old saying: "Even if a melon isn't sweet, it can still be eaten and quench your thirst! Now we don't even have melons!"
Hearing that the Li King and his entourage had stayed in the small tribe for several days, he thought of sending people to capture Jin Sui again: "I am not in breach of contract, it is the Li King who is dragging his feet and has not left the Northern Frontier for so long.
This king has said, as long as Ji Xiangu is in the Northern Frontier, I will snatch her away!"
Fortunately, Toya has been on guard all the time. Bater sent Torre this time. Toya asked Liuyun to quietly persuade Torre not to act according to Bater's wishes.
That’s right, Liuyun was left in the royal court.
Liuyun didn't take Toya's order seriously at first. My senior sister left me here to spread our Taoist temple, not to run errands for Princess Toya! But when he heard that it was about his senior sister, he was going to run away! If his mouth couldn't convince Tore, he could only stop him with the sword in his hand.
Fortunately, Torei was smart enough to figure out the whole story. He also felt that Bater's behavior was shameful. The King of Northern Frontier was so shameless as to imprison the Han envoy.
But he didn't want to reject the King of Northern Frontier openly. Just when he was in a dilemma, Liuyun gave him an idea:
"Take your men out for a run, and come back to tell Bater that my senior sister and the others have already left Northern Xinjiang, and you can't catch up."
Torre's eyes lit up instantly, and he patted Liuyun on the shoulder and said with a smile: "As expected of Master Ji's junior brother! Master Liuyun is so smart!"
Liuyun raised his eyebrows proudly. Humph, in the Northern Frontier, I can also be a military advisor! Tuole asked curiously, "Do you think the king wants to keep Miss Ji because of her medical skills? Could it be that the king likes her?"
There was no other way. His sister was the future princess, and as a brother, he had to pay attention to the other women around Bater.
Liuyun glared at him with disdain: "My sister is a Taoist nun! She has no feelings or love, how can she get married! No matter what the king thinks of her, she will never stay in the Northern Frontier."
Now Torre and Aiyue who was eavesdropping outside the door felt relieved.
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